Residents in Kansas have filed a legal challenge to the state’s newly drawn congressional districts maps, saying that they were designed with the specific goal of making Democratic Rep. Sharice David's district more difficult to win in the midterms.
The lawsuits contend that the new maps
— and with the aim of defeating the only Democratic member of Congress, Rep. Sharice Davids, by making her district more difficult to win in the 2022 midterm election.that dilutes the representation of non-white communities. For example, the map splits Wyandotte County, placing a large portion of the county’s Black and Latinx communities into a rural and majority-white district nearby. The new map also dilutes the voting power of progressive- and liberal-leaning voters in Lawrence County, placing the county within the same boundaries as the 1st Congressional District in the state, which is also more rural and traditionally conservative.
“The Enacted Plan was deliberately designed to consistently and efficiently elect exclusively Republicans to Congress, and specifically to prevent Democratic voters in the Kansas City Metro Area from electing their preferred candidate, currently Congresswoman Sharice Davids,”“The people in the Kansas City metropolitan area have a real need and desire to elect representatives that are going to represent their interests in Congress,”, the legal director for the ACLU of Kansas, in a separate...
Notably, the lawsuits are within the state judicial system rather than the federal one, the first time a challenge to Kansas’s congressional maps has been made in that arena. It’s possible that this choice was made on account of
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