Spotlight PA: The group behind a misleading mailer targeting the Pa. Supreme Court retention elections

Katie Meyer of Spotlight PA wrote about a controversial mail advertisement being sent to Pennsylvanians that targets several incumbent state Supreme Court Justices who are up for retention. 

A conservative political action committee is behind a mailer, described by one good-government advocate as “incredibly dishonest,” that urges voters to reject new terms for three state Supreme Court justices…

That misleading mailer, which began arriving at voters’ homes this month, says that the “liberal Supreme Court gerrymandered our congressional districts to help Democrats win.”

It includes an image of a congressional map, with two of its more convoluted-looking districts circled in red. One, hammer-shaped, stretches more than 100 miles from Pennsylvania’s western border into Cambria and Somerset Counties. The other, even more jagged, sprawls from Lackawanna County down to Pine Grove, in southern Schuylkill County.

But that’s not a map the current court drew.

In fact, a GOP-controlled state legislature drew it in 2011. The current court overturned it in 2018, declaring it a partisan gerrymander that favored Republicans.

Read more at Spotlight PA.