(Reuters) - State and national Republican officials will file a federal
lawsuit as soon as Wednesday seeking to block a new Pennsylvania
congressional map released on Monday by the state’s high court, the
party’s congressional campaign arm said on Tuesday. The new map would
give Democrats better odds of capturing as many as half a dozen U.S.
House of Representatives seats in Pennsylvania, where Republicans
currently hold 13 of the 18 seats. The Democrats need to flip 24 seats
nationally in November’s mid-term elections to retake control of the
House. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court drew a new map for the state’s 18
congressional districts after previously invalidating the existing lines
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