Sentences with phrase «gerrymandered legislative»

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

Supporters of the amendment contend the measure will remove the highly partisan process that has resulted in gerrymandered legislative districts and place it in the hands of a less self - interested body.

And Andrew Cuomo, after saying for two years that he wouldn't sign off on gerrymandered legislative maps, signed off on them anyway.

A new poll finds that while New Yorkers still think very highly of Governor Cuomo, they are not as happy with recent developments in Albany that include a secretive, middle of the night legislative session, and gerrymandered legislative district lines.

The Times, in a strongly worded editorial, chastised Cuomo not only for failing to follow through on his vow to veto gerrymandered legislative districts but for engaging in tactics that represent a step backwards in Albany's already undemocratic culture.

A federal judge has ruled North Carolina must redraw gerrymandered legislative maps drawn by Republicans.

He's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court - run redrawing of the lines would result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim of powerlessness, to his criticism of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.

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The rich have also used their resources to «influence electoral, legislative and regulatory processes,» and the political process is now distorted by gerrymandering.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Republicans turned their new state legislative majorities into laboratories of right - wing extremism — attacking women's right to choose, busting unions, gerrymandering Republican congressional districts, and so much more.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

At a Republican gathering Sunday evening, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) criticized the Democratic leadership in the state Assembly for redrawing legislative boundaries in a way that gerrymandered part of one northeast Queens district and minimized the voice of GOP voters.

«The new legislative maps are an abomination and are gerrymandered to break up our communities that have simply asked to remain united.»

Government reform groups are split over whether an amendment on the November ballot to change the way legislative district lines are drawn is an improvement, or will make only make gerrymandering worse.

Virtually every legislative district at every level of government — federal, state and municipal — is gerrymandered.

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This state constitutional amendment will ban partisan gerrymandering by outlawing legislative maps drawn for political advantage.»

Davis said a constitutional convention could enact early voting and same - day registration to make it easier to vote and outlaw the gerrymandering of legislative districts.

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.

Democrats not only swept Virginia's statewide races but neared a majority in the House of Delegates, a legislative chamber that was gerrymandered to make the Republican majority virtually unassailable.

Davis says a constitutional convention could enact early voting and same day registration, to make it easier to vote, and outlaw the gerrymandering of legislative districts.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

The High Court Tuesday started hearing arguments in a case out of Wisconsin involving gerrymandering, the much - criticized practice of drawing up legislative boundaries to benefit one political party.

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Republicans in North Carolina's General Assembly have repeatedly lost in the courts over their gerrymandering of legislative maps, so now they are trying to rig the state court's.

Thanks to the gerrymandering of New York State legislative districts, Rockland is divided between two state senate districts and four assembly districts.

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.

Partisan gerrymandering, control of public schools and legislative moves to curtail new Gov. Roy Cooper's power played out in the courts this year.

Now, Rep. Justin Burr is proposing a judicial gerrymandering bill that one legislative aide said was intended to elect more Republican judges.

On remand, a three - judge panel in Alabama ruled 12 legislative districts in the state's 2011 legislative map are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.