{"id":286513,"date":"2022-11-10T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=286513"},"modified":"2022-11-10T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:22:42","slug":"days-after-election-kentucky-democrats-lose-first-battle-in-legal-redistricting-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/days-after-election-kentucky-democrats-lose-first-battle-in-legal-redistricting-war","title":{"rendered":"Days after election, Kentucky Democrats lose first battle in legal redistricting war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled Thursday that Kentucky&#8217;s GOP-drawn House and U.S. Congressional District maps are constitutional. Wingate filed the order in response to a lawsuit brought forward by the Kentucky Democratic Party shortly after the House and Senate GOP rushed through their new, constitutionally-required, redistricting maps early this year. Wingate agreed with the KDP&#8217;s legal team that the maps were, indeed, gerrymandered for partisan advantage. But he did not find their case arguing that the state constitution prohibited gerrymandering to be compelling enough. He found that House Bill 2, the new House map, and Senate Bill 3, the new U.S. Congressional District map, did not violate the state constitution because existing case law does not support the idea that gerrymandering in and of itself is unconstitutional. &#8220;The Kentucky Constitution assigns the task of apportionment to the General Assembly&#8212;a political body. Plaintiffs have made an admirable effort to prosecute their claims and successfully established at trial that HB 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge ruled that both GOP-drawn redistricting maps challenged by Democrats as an example of gerrymandering were, in fact, constitutional. However, he did opine that the House and U.S. Congressional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}