When top Republican lawmakers filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state Supreme Court’s decision to use decade-old House and Senate districts in this year’s upcoming elections, the parties looked like this:
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, a Republican from Delaware County and a member of the state’s Legislative Reapportionment Commission, joined House Majority Leader Michael Turzai, a Republican from Allegheny County who is also on the LRC, and a Philadelphia-area attorney in one challenge. That case and one other were consolidated with a petition from state Rep. Samuel H. Smith, a Republican from Jefferson County. All three challenges named as the defendant Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s secretary of state, Carol Aichele, a Republican herself.
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