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The case could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting. It also could cut state courts out of the equation. The issue has arisen repeatedly in cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where Democratic majorities on the states’ highest courts have invoked voting protections in their state constitutions to frustrate the plans of Republican-dominated legislatures.
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The 2020 Census isn’t done with you — at least not if you live in the City of Pittsburgh.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: State legislative districts and congressional districts needed updating following the 2020 U.S. Census — where do these redistricting processes stand with the clock ticking as the May primary approaches?; a recent study looks at how people follow instructions after getting results from an at-home COVID test; and Mayor Ed Gainey promised an end to over-policing — a month in office, how will he proceed?
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: Pennsylvania Capital-Star reporter Stephen Caruso explains where the process to develop congressional district maps stands as the first day for candidates to file or circulate nominating petitions to appear on the primary ballot approaches; the new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania talks about her experience and the future of abortion access across the country; and the executive director of the Hilltop Urban Farm discusses how it plans to expand its programming, once the 23 acres it operates on is sold to the Allegheny Land Trust.
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A commission that’s redrawing Pittsburgh Public Schools board districts presented a new map Monday night. The map would preserve many of the current districts and minimize disruptions to voters and incumbent board members.
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Local Democrats are largely in favor of the new preliminary state political maps unveiled yesterday. Republicans are less enamored of the new lines.
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Efforts to redraw the school board districts for Pittsburgh Public Schools face a Jan. 10 deadline. Mapmakers say they want to ensure that Black voters hold a majority in some of the city's nine districts but warn that population changes make it difficult.
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The map is expected to pass through a key House committee Wednesday morning — though both Democrats and Republicans on the committee said they didn’t have all the details or rationale for the proposal late Tuesday afternoon.
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Two groups that want to change the way Pennsylvania’s political boundaries are drawn took to the Capitol last week to unveil their own sets of publicly drawn state and Congressional maps.
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The task of reshaping Pennsylvania's political maps falls to a small group of legislative insiders, a system that critics worry facilitates backroom deals.