GOP Threatens Impeachment to Fight Dem Power Grab

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.

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  1. John Craig February 23, 2018