On Tuesday Feb. 15, a 5-member Minnesota Judicial Branch Special Redistricting Panel formed in 2021, adopted a congressional and state legislative district map. The court released its final orders for both the congressional and legislative map and explained the panel’s approach to redrawing the maps.
That approach was to make as few changes as possible to satisfy legal requirements since courts must perform redistricting in a restrained manner as opposed to legislatures who have more “political authority.” The court further explained “We are not positioned to draw entirely new congressional districts, as the legislature could choose to do. Rather, we start with the existing districts, changing them as necessary to remedy the constitutional defect by applying politically neutral redistricting principles.”
View detailed congressional and state legislative map PDFs.
Read Media Coverage in: MPR News, Star Tribune, CBS Minnesota, and SouthernMinn.com.
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