LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Democrats’ legal challenge to Republican-drawn House and U.S. Congressional District faced opposition for the first time at a hearing in Franklin Circuit Court on Thursday, with state attorneys arguing their effort was too little, too late.
Attorneys for the Democrats said the new House map splits counties too many times, and the House and U.S. Congressional District maps are examples of “extreme partisan gerrymandering” that violate certain portions of the Kentucky Constitution.
Representing the state, Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office argued that the maps passed last month are now law and the motion should be dismissed. Changing or rewriting the maps that easily passed both chambers, they argued, would cause “chaos.”
