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Pennsylvania legislators must reject a dangerous bill to extend gerrymandering into the courts | PennLive letters
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
By Members of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, Pittsburgh and Southeastern PA
As members of Bend the Arc Jewish Action in Pennsylvania, we follow our state legislative races closely. Time and again, we have been frustrated by statewide gerrymandering that forces some Pennsylvanians to work disproportionately harder to elect candidates who share their values. This gerrymandering has long compromised every Pennsylvanian’s right to equal representation in our state government.
Now, the Pennsylvania Legislature is considering a dangerous new judicial gerrymandering bill that will extend gerrymandering into our court system. Fair and independent courts form the basis for our democracy, but House Bill 38, which just passed out of the House Judiciary Committee and could be passed in the legislature as early as next week, would undermine the impartiality o