On Tuesday Feb. 14, two challenges to the controversial “Ad Astra 2” Kansas congressional map were filed in state court. The lawsuits were brought about by individual Democratic voters, civic organizations, and the ACLU of Kansas. Republicans in the Kansas House and Senate successfully overrode Democratic governor Laura Kelly’s veto of the map on Feb. 9. Read the cases here. Rivera v. Schwab and Alonzo v. Schwab.
The cases challenge the map on state constitutional partisan gerrymandering, minority vote dilution, and racial discrimination grounds. Both lawsuits focus on congressional lines in and around Wyandotte County, described in the complaint as “Kansas’s most Democratic and populous majority-minority county,” [which was] cut in half, splitting the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro area into two districts, and submerging the city’s minority, Democratic, and urban voters in an expansive white, Republican, and rural district.”
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