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Junior Chimp
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« on: April 02, 2020, 02:25:34 PM » |
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Looking at the redistricting system for NJ, it does appear that this cycle could favor the Democrats. While the NJ supreme court is currently Republican-leaning (3 Democrats, 3 Republicans, 1 Independent nominated by the Republicans), it likely wont be by the time they have to appoint a tiebreaker.
One of the GOP's three justices sees their term expire in a couple of months. Another GOP justice will see their term end in June of 2021. If we're going off 2010-2011, that would mean the tiebreaker would be chosen in July.
So its likely that the court will be Dem-controlled by the time redistricting comes around. If that's the case, the tiebreaker may be more inclined to side with the Democrats over the Republicans.
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