Pennsylvania Republicans are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court and threatening to impeach the state’s supreme court after the body approved a redrawn electoral map that heavily favors Democrats.
Late Wednesday, Pennysylvania’s House Speaker Mike Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati submitted an emergency request to nation’s highest court requesting a block on implementing the new lines drawn by the state court.
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court conspicuously seized the redistricting process and prevented any meaningful ability for the legislature to enact a remedial map to ensure a court drawn map,” they wrote in their request.
Turzai and Scarnati said their argument was based on the state court’s violation of the U.S. Constitution by legislating from the bench.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
About time someone started impeachment actions against activist judges.It’s going to be that or people will be breaking out guns to settle elections. I sometimes think that’s what liberals want to happen so they can say “see we told you so”.