If the state Legislative Reapportionment Commission wants to set forth a set of constitutional maps of House and Senate districts, it will have to adhere to the constitutional principles of compactness and contiguity above any secondary political considerations.
That was the viewpoint expressed before the state Supreme Court on Thursday by a host of petitioners challenging the commission’s second go at drawing the district maps after a sharply divided Supreme Court made the unprecedented move of rejecting the commission’s first effort.
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