ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota's political parties will argue for their plans to redraw the state's political boundaries before a panel of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The Special Redistricting Panel meets Wednesday in St. Paul. Its members will hear arguments from attorneys for Democrats and Republicans, who have offered conflicting proposals for the once-per-decade process of adjusting congressional and legislative districts to reflect population changes.
The Minnesota GOP plan would keep all eight of Minnesota's members of Congress in their current districts. But the DFL's plan would make significant changes. Most controversially, it would put Minnesota's only two female representatives — Michele Bachmann and Betty McCollum — in the same district.
A McCollum aide criticized that proposal as "bizarre."
Obviously, the Courts always must decide because of the politically charged dimensions of redistricting.
Equally obvious, we shall be hearing of the judges on this panel, and what they say.
Equally obvious, Strib glosses over the trench-warfare to show the more appealing air war.
In the trenches is where we find the legislative House and Senate districts, determining whether Dayton still has to face the other party in both houses, or whether he gets a respite, and good sense again prevails.
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Strib follow-up, Here. A legislative website background page, here. A general google, here. Court papers - trust me, more than you'd care to look at unless a seriously warped wonk - here. The politicians will debate it and a bunch of judges will cut the baby, in a Solomon's choice. We live under a two-party system, and it and tensions between the two will set the limits of what mischief actually and finally happens. The devil is in the details, and money is spent for the lawyers to care one way or the other, each party fielding its dueling team. Make sense of it, or just wait and see what applies ultimately where you live, and in the interim consider the mechanic who repairs your car good or badly as more important, by far, than the redistricting posing match. Back to site links, "Ballotpedia" wiki - Minnesota Redistricting, here. Earlier Politics in Minnesota site posting, here. Here, the headline tells it like it is. Every time I read about it I think of going to an entirely new restaurant, ordering hash, and consciously not wanting to ask what's in it. Enjoy. Also, you can go to that court papers site, find out the judges on the special panel, and find biographical info for each, on the judiciary site. That will give you information. Go for it. Let me know anything useful you find.
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Trying another Google, map-wise, this result, and it can be toggled for images. Not clear where to go for an interactive map display of the GOP or DFL proposals. One would expect in an orderly world that each party would have its map on its website, and the first Google hits would be to there. Perhaps each party sees advantage in not being so orderly, for non-insider citizens to find out what each is up to. Of course that's what a skeptic would say, and being an optimist and a trusting soul, I would never go beyond a passing thought that way, for either camp. Trust each, with each saying, "Trust me."
For lack of finding any better data, MPP has a series of posts, a sample, plus this Google.
Perhaps readers could try using the Dogpile search engine. For finding relevant things, this topic.