Kentucky Supreme Court Dismisses Congressional Maps Lawsuit

The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a Democratic challenge to recent redistricting maps in the state.

"The alleged partisanship in the crafting of the Apportionment Plans does not rise to the level of a clear, flagrant, or unwarranted deviation from constitutional limitations or a threat to our democratic form of government," wrote Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Angela McCormick Bisig. "Nor do we perceive in the Apportionment Plans any violation of the constitutional guarantees of free and fair elections, equal protection, freedom of speech and assembly, or freedom from arbitrary government action."

Kentucky redistricted in 2022, with the Republican-led legislature creating maps that resulted in an 80-20 seat edge for Republicans in the Kentucky House and a 31-7 seat edge in the state Senate.

According to the Lexington Herald Leader, Democrats pushed for a map that would have given three more seats in the House to the Democrats.

"We simply cannot find that a disparity between HB 2 and HB 191 of 3 out of 100 seats involves partisanship either rising to the level of a clear, flagrant, and unwarranted violation of constitutional rights or so severe as threaten our democratic form of government," wrote Bisig.