Sports drafts inspire senator’s proposal for redistricting law
When redistricting time arrives, the parties flip a coin and the winner picks one district and redraws it - then the other party picks a different district and redraws it - and then the first party goes again. And so on, until the whole process is done. That’s the essence of a new proposal from Pennsylvania Sen. Dan Laughlin to resolve the seemingly endless fights over redistricting - like this week’s blowup in Virginia. That situation was in the back of Laughlin’s mind as he issued a co-sponsor memo in the Legislature this week. “I don’t think any of these states ...