Sentences with phrase «assembly redistricting plan»

On Thursday, the US District Court ordered lawyers for the Assembly Majority to advise the Court by next Tuesday, May 15, 2012, about the status of the DOJ preclearance process as it relates to the Assembly Redistricting Plan and the status... Continue reading →

On Thursday, the US District Court ordered lawyers for the Assembly Majority to advise the Court by next Tuesday, May 15, 2012, about the status of the DOJ preclearance process as it relates to the Assembly Redistricting Plan and the status of the Section 5 litigation before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Not exact matches

And going back to pre-Sandy days, the Democrats were none too thrilled that Cuomo declined to intercede when the Senate and Assembly failed to agree on a redistricting plan for the congressional lines, kicking the matter to the courts and resulting in a far less gerrymandered outcome than a politically - controlled process would likely have produced.

Daniel Chill, representing the Assembly Democrats, also argued for the prerogative of incumbents, saying it's «state policy» based on decades of redistricting plans that considered the existing legislators, and that the court could perhaps make it a significant factor without «putting it at the top of the list.»

It's widely expected that the DOJ will approve the Assembly's redistricting plan sometime within the next 5 - 7 days.

The initial version said that the legislature could redraw the lines, if the new commission's redistricting plan is rejected by the Senate and the Assembly.

In an interview this week, Mr. Behan said the only positive aspect of the redistricting plan is that Long Island would gain another seat in the Assembly.

Celeste Katz over at the Daily Politics blog posted the US DOJ's official letter pre-clearing the State Assembly's redistricting plan.

Buerkle fared better in redistricting at the hands of the court - appointed special master, Magistrate Judge Roann Mann, than she did in the plans proposed by the Senate and Assembly.

Attorneys for the majority parties in the Senate and Assembly still contend there is enough time for the Legislature to act on a redistricting plan on its own, but asked a panel of judges to limit its purview to congressional... Continue reading →

The report, Can The Plan: How The 2012 Redistricting Deal Denies New Yorkers Fair Representation And The Fundamentally Flawed Redistricting «Reform,» examined the populations of Assembly and Senate districts.

This comes as Koch was in Albany to meet with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and received — according to the former mayor — the governor's reassurance that he will indeed veto any redistricting plan created in the traditional, partisan manner controlled directly by the Senate and Assembly.

Yesterday, in proceedings held before Circuit Judge Reena Raggi, Circuit Judge Gerald E. Lynch, and District Judge Dora L. Irizarry, lawyers for Governor Andrew Cuomo, the state legislature and the plaintiffs addressed the status of the newly enacted Legislative Redistricting Plan for the State Senate and Assembly Districts.

Despite objections from the lawyers representing the Senate and Assembly Majorities, the Court declared that it would hear complaints about the enacted state legislative redistricting plan.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

Cuomo's endorsement has the potential to further alienate him from the Senate Democratic conference, already smarting after he signed off on a redistricting plan for state legislative districts drawn by majority lawmakers in the Assembly Senate.

With respect to Congressional redistricting, the Missouri General Assembly bears primary responsibility, proposing and passing the redistricting plan as ordinary legislation.