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NY's Redistricting Commission was not ordered to redraw congressional district map; your story should read that the Governor asked a court to order commission back to drawing board first
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The Alaska redistricting decision may be one of the first to invalidate a map over the failure to properly consider "communities of interest" when drawing a map.
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Wow, I didn't see this coming from the Alaska Supreme Court (in a case I had nothing to do with):
"To allow for meaningful judicial review in redistricting cases, we formally adopt Professor Nicholas O. Stephanopoulosโs โcommunity of interestโ definition ..."
In NY redistricting case, Judge permits challenge to
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plan, finds Governor & Lt. Governor are NEC defendants & denies their motion to dismiss
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Breaking News: SCOTUS holds that the Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elections
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Ruling expected soon -tomorrow?- on lawsuit seeking to redraw congressional district lines drawn by a court-appointed "special master" in 2022 as Democrats ask the state court for a new map.ย โฆ
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Democratic lawyers ask NY Appellate Court to reject yesterday's GOP letter request re: NY congressional redistricting challenge. They argue SCOTUS school loan decision has "no bearing" on this case & "is illogical"
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Looking forward to our public hearings in Syracuse and Albany this week! Take a look at our draft Assembly map on our website and then sign up for a hearing and let us know what you want the future of your Assembly lines to look like!
Ronald Reagan: โa look at the district lines shows how corrupt the whole process has become. The congressional map is a horror show of grotesque, contorted shapes. Districts jump back and forth over mountain ranges, cross large bodies of water, send out little tentacles..โ
7. Right now all of these districts are drawn using TOTAL population. The purpose of creating this citizenship data is to redraw the districts using citizens only.
This would be a massive and permanent transfer of power to white Republicans.
Today's NY Hoffmann redistricting hearing leaves the Appellate Court left to consider whether the 2022 congressional map was limited to one election cycle or whether the
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gets back to work again for 2024. It's not over yet.
Breaking - NY judge will allow new congressional and senate plans to be used this year, suggests new lines for 2023 if new lines are found unconstitutional
Big Update: John Faso, the former GOP congressman key to his party's successful suit against the '22 maps, tells me he sees no reason to sue this time around.
"There are small changes here or there, but none of them are materially significant from a political standpoint"
Ruth Bader Ginsberg said it so well: . โThrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
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10 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Shelby County v. Holder and gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that stopped racial discrimination before it happened. Recent voter suppression laws remind us that it is beyond time to
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The congressional maps introduced late on Monday by the legislature includes language that they โsupersede any inconsistent provision of law,โ including the section from 2012 limiting the legislatureโs changes to a 2% deviation from the
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