The Federal Circuit Courts shot down the House and Senate districts from 2011, and the Legislature has just released the new proposed maps for both House and Senate.
These have to be sent back to the Courts by September 1st for a final decision. Ultimately, the Courts could vote against these, too, and draw their own new districts.
The rhetoric against these maps during the public hearing has been bat shirt insane. Apparently
house Republicans are literally NAZIs for releasing these maps. I wish I were exaggerating. So there is no telling what the partisan courts will do.
For my part, these appear to be the cleanest County lines I have ever seen around these parts. The complaint is that "they stopped the federally mandated racial districting and substituted partisan districting."
These maps are actually good. My district is actually good. I would have voted for these maps in 2011.
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