The state’s redistricting efforts have discovered favor with the Kansas Supreme Courtroom.
The state excessive courtroom reviewed the state maps for the Kansas Senate, Kansas Home and Kansas State Board of Training in a single case and the Congressional maps in one other. It upheld each maps in separate choices introduced Wednesday, and within the case of the Congressional map, the Supreme Courtroom reversed a decrease courtroom’s ruling and lifted a everlasting injunction issued earlier this 12 months.
The state maps handed with little fuss within the Legislature and was signed by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. The Congressional map has been controversial as a result of it shifted components of Douglas and Wyandotte counties from the Third District into the Second, inflicting critics to say the maps had been “racially gerrymandered” so minority votes could be curtailed.