Philly.com: Why Pa. sends too many Republicans to Washington - and why that could change

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Pennsylvania sends too many Republicans to Washington.

That’s not a partisan attack. It’s just math.

Of the 18 Pennsylvanian members of the House of Representatives, 13 are Republicans and 5 are Democrats. That split should be more like 11 to 7 or even 10 to 8 if the districts were drawn without attempts at favoring Republicans, according to recent expert analyses.

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“All of these things tend to point in the same direction, so we think that presenting any of these pieces of evidence could be useful for a court,” said Ruth Greenwood, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, which is bringing the Whitford case before the Supreme Court.

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