Sentences with phrase «include gerrymandering»

Other possible reasons why public school segregation increased as neighborhoods became more integrated include gerrymandering of public school attendance zones by race or class and other decisions made by local public school boards.

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the suffragists, artworks will address the many enduring barriers to the ballot including gerrymandering, stringent voter registration requirements, voter registration roll purges, and revisions to the Voting Rights Act.

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To claim so would be to ignore longer - term trends, including extreme gerrymandering and the rise of political dark money that make elected officials more likely to appeal to extremes.

Other potential showstoppers include a case about partisan gerrymandering and another round on President Trump's executive order on immigration.

Note that gerrymandering generally includes this as part of its goals, as unbalanced population is a reason to invalidate districts.

He signed off on the gerrymandered LATFOR Senate and Assembly maps in a deal that also included Tier VI, expansion of non-Indian gambling (another constitutional amendment), expansion of the statewide DNA database, and the teacher performance evaluation system.

Other finalists met privately with Paterson in December and January, including Gillibrand, then a sophomore member from the old 20th District, which followed the Hudson Valley from Poughkeepsie to Lake Placid but was gerrymandered around Democrat - rich areas in like Albany and Troy.

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.

The Missouri Supreme Court «agreed with the trial court's decision to dismiss several counts (including partisan gerrymandering claims), but remanded for a determination of whether the congressional districts (particularly districts 3 and 5) were sufficiently compact under state constitutional law.»

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.

If they want to include Wakefield in North Central Bronx county and West Yonkers, it may not pass the racial gerrymander test.

The nine chapters cover a wide range of topics, including bicameralism, presidential vetoes, gerrymandering, term limits, and voting rights.

The Supreme Court started the current term in October with a docket that could have a lasting impact on politics and culture, including major cases on partisan gerrymandering and LGBT rights, but six months later, the justices haven't crossed off much on their to - do list, points out Todd Ruger for Roll Call.

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).