When a panel of federal judges struck down Pennsylvania’s new congressional district boundaries created by the Republican-led state Legislature, it may have created a logjam that could delay the May 21 primary races, according to election lawyers and candidates.
A special panel of the Middle District federal court ruled on Monday that the state Legislature would have to go back to the drawing board and put together a new plan. The majority ruled that the plan that was signed into law in January violated the principle of “one person, one vote.”
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