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KY Supreme Court considers Congressional Maps enacted during the 2022 legislative session.
KY Supreme Court considers whether the Kentucky State House and Congressional Maps enacted during the 2022 legislative session violate the Kentucky constitution.
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U.S. Congressional District Map
Clip: Season 2 Episode 79 | 2m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
KY Supreme Court considers whether the Kentucky State House and Congressional Maps enacted during the 2022 legislative session violate the Kentucky constitution.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipKentucky Democrats took their legal fight over GOP drawn boundaries for state, legislative and congressional districts to the state's highest court today.
It comes after a front line circuit court judge ruled the maps were gerrymandered but did not violate Kentucky's Constitution.
Now, here are the maps in question.
House Bill two redrew state House districts.
The bill became law last January.
And here's the newly drawn U.S. Congressional District map.
It also became law last January with the passage of Senate Bill three.
Representing the plaintiff, attorney Michael Newberry argued GOP lawmakers offered no reasons for why they made the changes they did to justice.
Nicole and Justice.
Six Questions about What did the legislature say the purpose was for X or Y or Z.
The answer is nothing.
I want to be very clear.
Mr. Trendy may have speculated about something, and Mr. Maddox this morning offered some potential reasons.
There was no evidence offered of the reasons for either of the maps.
The position below was as a matter of law.
It's our discretion and courts need to butt out.
That's been their position all along.
So they didn't offer any evidence.
They just tried to poke holes in ours.
Vic Maddox is an attorney and the Kentucky attorney General's office.
He pushed back against claims of Partizan gerrymandering, saying his opponents want to strip the responsibility from lawmakers and give it to machines.
The Kentucky Democratic Party is asking this court to institute a revolution in redistricting.
It wants social science metrics that have been created in the last five or six years.
This mapping ensemble and this efficiency gap to be used to take away the authority for redistricting from the third floor of this building to the computer lab of Harvard and the faculty lounge of been it MIT.
Chief Justice Lawrence Van Meter said the court would issue a ruling as soon as possible.
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Remembering Gov. Brereton Jones
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Clip: S2 Ep79 | 5m 20s | A Louisville family shares their experience with preventable stillbirth. (5m 20s)
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