IN 2010 Republicans won majorities in both houses of Pennsylvania's legislature, which gave them control of the state's decennial redistricting process. Like politicians everywhere, they drew districts to benefit themselves; like children left alone with a box of cookies, they went a bit too far. On January 22nd Pennsylvania's Supreme Court held that the state's congressional map "clearly, plainly and palpably" violates the state constitution, and gave legislators until February 9th to redraw it. The judges warned that if lawmakers could not come up with a map that the (Democratic) governor approved, the court would draw its own.
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