Robert C. Jubilirer, et al.
Appellees
Robert C. Jubilirer, et al., AppelleesJohn P. Krill, Jr., Counsel of RecordIn the congressional reapportionment following the 2000 decennial national census, the State of Pennsylvania dropped from 21 to 19 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The following year, the Pennsylvania State Legislature, then controlled by Republicans, set out to draw a new map of the State’s congressional districts. Federal law and Supreme Court precedent required the State to make each district contain nearly equal amounts of people and preserve several majority-minority districts in Philadelphia. Within these guidelines, Republican State leaders constructed a map that, overall, gave conservatives a…
