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On January 27, 2022, Partner Aaron Bayer argued a case concerning Congressional redistricting in the Connecticut Supreme Court. In that case, In re Petition of Reapportionment Commission, ex rel, Mr. Bayer represented the Democratic members of the Reapportionment Commission. He was quoted in Connecticut Mirror article on the Supreme Court argument, entitled “Court Shows No Interest in Remaking CT Map.”

The Republican Commission Members argued that the Court should not accept a Special Master’s proposed redistricting plan that made minimal changes to the existing district lines and instead should use its authority to substantially redraw the districts. In response, Bayer said the state constitution “doesn’t direct this court to step in and replicate the political process, it doesn’t direct this court to use traditional redistricting principles to start from scratch and remake the map, move hundreds of thousands of voters into new districts.” He also rebuffed the claim that the current districts were “gerrymandered,” arguing that the current district map was the product of a bipartisan compromise that has led to election wins by both parties over the last ten years, which “bespeaks competitive districts.”

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