More like Democrat-appointed judges changed the map to benefit Democrats.
The Pennsylvania SC is elected. This was part of the D's mini-tsunami last year that followed Clinton's defeat.
It should pass, and I'd rather see this happen than President Hillary. At least the fact that the map doesn't look gerrymandered means that some of the districts are competitive and winnable by Rs. The issue in electoral maps for the Ds is that they all tend to live together in cities, so in order to spread their votes around takes some creative gerrymandering.
I don't believe Mitch when he says that the Rs are going to lose seats in November. (Or, at least I hope.)
I am not in support of the courts doing this...but the political advantage is not in the public interest in the broader sense.
The idea of the founders was in representatives who were cut from the same cloth as the area they represented. You know citizen legislators, not Lords of the Manor.
Here in Western NY there was a district (28th) that was a carve out for a democRAT while the rest of the area was solidly Republican. The congresscritter Louise Slaughter had no interest in the “bitter clingers” along the lakeshore, and only represented the democ-HoodRATS in Rochester City and Niagra Falls City. I lived in that district and those of us who were not city dwellers/welfare leeches simply were ignored by this POS. The state courts canned this district and folded it into two adjacent districts because the legislature could not come to an agreement. Slaughter won the new seat, but that may change this time around. If the party is unhappy with the results, the go out and win the votes of the residents.
My point is that partisan gerrymandering benefits the party, not the residents/voters of the district. If the policial parties are more interested in their own fortunes, then there needs to be a remedy for the people. The district should be representative of the majority. A carve-out for blacks, as NY-28 was, was a complete insult to those of us who got lumped into that district with no recourse since the two cities are 90 miles apart and the district by law must be contiguous.