Sentences with phrase «against gerrymandering»

Thank you for your kind messages and all of the support and I hope you'll join me in my battle against gerrymandering with the same enthusiasm,» he added.

Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the Fund drive, information unfolding after the Las Vegas mass shooting, a case against Gerrymandering, and a Republican abortion ban bill.

Not exact matches

He warned that the Supreme Court has ruled against racial gerrymandering but has never ruled on partisan gerrymandering.

At the end of the film, viewers are encouraged to visit a website in order protest against and / or reform gerrymandering.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

It seems increasingly obvious that if Corbyn wins again, and provided the gerrymandering of the NEC has not be successful he should, that he is still not going to take decisive action against the coup plotters but will use the occasion to make more calls for party unity.

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

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.

Nationally in 1983/84, minor gerrymandering by incumbent federal governments was legislated against with the formation of the independent Commonwealth statutory authority, the Australian Electoral Commission.

Five of the Majority Caucus members who voted against downsizing now support the gerrymandered map that was vetoed by the County Executive.

I say Cecilia's victory in a district so heavily gerrymandered * against * her has to count for a lot.

The Maryland lawsuit proposes a solution that some justices have pondered: an argument that gerrymanders violate the First Amendment, not the 14th, by retaliating against opponents who express contrary views.

«A vote no against this amendment essentially preserves the status quo, and the status quo involves the Legislature drawing its own lines and continuing a decades - long practice of partisan gerrymandering,» Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey told journalists during a Tuesday conference call.

Former Labour minister Alan Johnson - a former union leader - contends that the bill is «spiteful» and designed to «gerrymander votes in favour of the employer and against the employee».

It's the kind of The - Albany - Game - is - Rigged thing that Cuomo ran against in 2010, promising to veto gerrymandered lines produced by the legislative commission, known as LATFOR.

In December 2016, a Wisconsin court considered a statistical analysis when ruling against partisan gerrymandering.

The National Petrochemical Plaintiffs argue that Defendants «gerrymandered the criteria to reach this outcome,» which establishes that the purpose and design of the LCFS is to discriminate against out - of - state and foreign HCICOs.

As Ilya Somin and David Bernstein point out at Volokh Conspiracy, Sotomayor also gerrymanders «race» in a way convenient to her purposes, using it to include Hispanic - Americans (who aren't a race) while breathing not one word about Asian - Americans (a more genuine racial classification whose situation of being both historically disadvantaged * and * discriminated against in university admissions cries out for recognition).