Sentences with phrase «state congressional redistricting plan»
Earlier in 2012, a three - judge panel approved a New York State Congressional redistricting plan that was strikingly similar to Unity Maps proposed by the same coalition.
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On January 1, 2012, the state's independent redistricting commission released its congressional district plan.
Judge Roanne Mann has until March 12 to give her recommendation for the state's proposed congressional plan, according to lawyer Dan Burstein, one of the plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit to have the redistricting process put -LSB-...]
The North Carolina congressional delegation was heavily Democratic until 2012 when the Republicans had occasion, after the 2010 United States census, to adopt a redistricting plan of their choosing.
On April 11, 2012, the state legislature approved a congressional redistricting plan, which was signed into law by the governor on April 23, 2012.
If the congressional redistricting commission fails to reach an agreement about a redistricting plan, it must submit two plans to the state Supreme Court, which must in turn select from those two plans a final map.
[T] he redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts... The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional redistricting plan does not have a discriminatory effect.
The State of Texas obtained pre-clearance from the US Department of Justice for its 2003 Congressional redistricting plan.
The 2003 Texas redistricting refers to a controversial mid-decade state plan that defined new Congressional districts.
Holding specially drawn, predominantly minority districts to a higher degree of constitutional scrutiny might «invalidate most of the Congressional, state, and local redistricting plans in the South as well as in other parts of the nation,» argued the American Civil Liberties Union in...
In January, a three - judge federal district court panel in North Carolina struck down that state's congressional redistricting plan because it was drawn by Republicans «motivated by invidious partisan intent,» according to the opinion.
The Supreme Court issued three opinions today, upholding a Republican - engineered Congressional redistricting plan in Texas (League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry), upholding a Pennsylvania ban on newspapers and magazines for prison inmates (Beard v. Banks) and ruling that states may bar foreign nationals from raising treaty rights not raised at trial (Sanchez - Llamas v. Oregon).
Surprised the Florida Legislature didn't try this: Just as happened in Florida a few years ago, the state supreme court in Pennsylvania overturned a partisan, gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan and, after the Republican - led state legislature and the Democratic governor couldn't agree on a new one, the court drew one up and ordered it to be put in place.