Sentences with phrase «senate redistricting plan»

On Wednesday, January 4, attorney David Brown of Columbia filed suit against Missouri's State Senate redistricting plan.

The measure is an attempt to use California's veto referendum process to nullify the California State Senate redistricting plan approved by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

It's an election year for all 212 (plus one added seat should the Senate redistricting plan be allowed) and an off - cycle year for the governor.

Not exact matches

In the 27th SD, which is only slated to exist for another eight months, thanks to the Senate GOP's redistricting plan and the desire to create a so - called «super Jewish» district, both Republican David Storobin and Democratic NYC Councilman Lew Fidler insisted they had won — yet another bizarre twist in a campaign that has been full of them.

One last point of interest from my CapTon interview with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last night: The Senate GOP is looking to pass a redistricting plan by March 1, which is pretty much right around the corner.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

The Senate GOP's redistricting plan called for eradicating Kruger's former district, the 27th SD.

The relationship saga between Cuomo and the Senate Democrats over the last six months has featured the governor signing off on a state legislative redistricting plan that is favorable to the majority Republicans in the chamber and repeatedly refusing to say whether he supports a Democratic takeover of the chamber.

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.

He would be running in the so - called «Super-Jewish» district proposed by the Senate Republicans, assuming their redistricting plan withstands the Democrats» court challenge.

«Comments made earlier this week by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos indicated that a draft redistricting plan will include a 63rd Senate District and that it could be introduced as early as today.

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.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a statement insisting he and his 31 felllow Republicans will honor their redistricting reform pledge to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, but declined to go into detail on how, exactly, he plans to do that.

At 1 p.m. this afternoon, the Senate Democrats plan to again rattle the GOP's cage on redistricting reform, delivering the Rules Committee a petition signed by one - third of its members seeking a public hearing on the governor's bill.

But so far, no concrete proposals have seen the light of day, with the exception of the governor's redistricting reform bill — a plan the Senate Republicans have yet to embrace.

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.

The Senate Republican lawmakers who filed suit challenging the 2010 law based on how to count prisoners for purposes of redistricting plan to end their legal challenge, two sources familiar with the plan said this afternoon.

Back in March when a series of late - night votes were held on a package of contentious legislation, the Democratic minority conference walked out of the chamber in protest while Senate Republicans push forward on a vote that would ultimately approve the passage of a lawmaker - drawn redistricting plan for state offices.

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 →

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The New York Senate's Republican majority proposed a legislative redistricting plan Thursday that contorted what are supposed to be compact election districts into some odd shapes to connect dwindling Republican pockets in the blue state.

Senator Michael Gianaris, a Democrat from Queens, expressed his frustration on the Senate floor, saying GOP lawmakers could take their redistricting plan and «shove it».

For two years, the governor had worked productively with Senate Republicans and their silver - haired majority leader, Dean Skelos, dangling a favorable redistricting plan to win pension reform in 2012.

With control of more than one - third of the seats in the State Senate, the Democrats invoked a two - thirds rule, preventing a vote on the redistricting plan during the first special session.

In June 2001, the task of redistricting passed to the LRB after the state legislature failed to pass a redistricting plan for either the House or Senate.

Celeste Katz: State Senate Republicans have decided that bigger is better: Senate officials, in a memo posted on the Legislature's redistricting website late Friday afternoon, confirmed plans to add another seat to the 62 - member chamber, arguing the state Constitution mandates such a move.

Update: Senate Democrats issued a statement saying they hold out hope the redistricting plan will be tossed out through their final legal challenge:

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.

But in the state Senate, where Democrats are hobbled by a redistricting plan drawn by Senate Republican lawmakers (and signed off on by Cuomo) and the poor image of dysfunction and corruption from their time in control, the minority conference still holds out hope that the presidential election year will help put them over the top.

(Of course, now the Senate Republicans appear to be balking on the independent redistricting piece of that, but Koch insists he plans to hold everyone's feet to the fire on that).

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.

The Senate GOP's redistricting plan clearly harms covered minority groups outside of the three counties (Kings, NY and The Bronx) covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

That would in essence give Senate Republicans permanent veto power over any redistricting plan Senate Democrats would put forward if they win control of that chamber in the next decade.

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.

By enacting a flawed redistricting plan, Cuomo triggers Justice Department pre-clearance review and federal court action on the already filed lawsuits by Senate Democrats and advocacy groups.

«While the Senate Plan does not reflect perfect equality in population apportionment, its minor deviations comport with the discretion afforded to the states to legislate their own redistricting.

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.

Democrats in the Senate said they have expected that the GOP majority would come up with an «abusively partisan» redistricting plan so they can keep their one - seat edge.

Cuomo, meanwhile, signed off on a legislative redistricting plan drawn by the Senate GOP, much to the chagrin of Senate Democrats who assumed an independent process would give them an overwhelming advantage in the November general election.

As the legislature continued its consideration of redistricting plans, Vermont residents had the opportunity to comment on several Senate plans on February 15, 2012.

After Cuomo okayed a redistricting plan in March that favored Republicans in the Senate over Democrats, Democrats boycotted the remainder of an all night session that included many bills on the governor's agenda.