Sentences with phrase «over redistricting»

They have a large majority now, and they've got lots of power over the redistricting process.

The fight over redistricting seems to be losing some steam, with some reform advocates saying time is running out to set up an independent panel.

The commission was set to take over the redistricting process beginning in 2020.

The governor said that with the new primary date, plus the uncertainty over redistricting, has helped incumbents at the expense of potential challengers.

With the legislature out of session until 2013, a three - member court - appointed special masters panel took over the redistricting process.

Emmer's loss also means there will be split control over the redistricting process in Minnesota.

The ongoing battle over redistricting moved to the borough of Queens on Tuesday February 7, the site of one of the most contentious battles between Democrats and Republicans.

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.

There has also been a lot of fighting over redistricting reform, with the Senate GOP (and the IDC) passing a constitutional amendment bill that Koch says does not meet NY Uprising standards.

Both chambers are majority - Republican and while Governor Beverly Perdue is a Democrat, she does not have veto power over the redistricting process.

But the state also passed a ballot measure that would hand over the redistricting process to a nonpartisan commission.

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Swirling around the process is the ongoing dispute over redistricting.

For example, he could name a blue - ribbon commission to look over the redistricting committee's shoulder, to act as a watchdog and fact gatherer at the public hearings.

«We are looking at lines drawn by a court at this point,» the senator said about the likelihood of litigation over the redistricting plan, which was conceived out of «the same politics that have plagued Albany for years.»

The governor admits he's already at odds with the Legislature over redistricting and says his top priority for next year will be pension reform.

The two have been publicly at odds over redistricting, with McEneny, who co-heads LATFOR, saying it's inappropriate for Cuomo to say he'll veto any non-independent plan draw up by the Legislature before he even lays eyes on said plan.

And she said in an interview that she was more concerned with settling into her new job than delving into the campaign over redistricting.

With all of the attention given to whether the Legislature will turn over redistricting to an independent commission, little, if any attention has been paid to the key factors that would result in a fair, nonpoliticized maps.

Though he won by a relatively good margin for an incumbent, Barrett briefly put a scare into Republicans, necessitating some SRCC attacks over a redistricting email to supporters.

Given all the brouhaha that exists over redistricting, I thought I would give one simple idea that would free our nation and states from tyranny.

She added that if the U.S. Supreme Court were to stay out of the fray over redistricting, state litigation would become an «even more important vehicle to fight gerrymandering.»

In the seven states where Republicans had complete control over the redistricting process, Republican House candidates received 16.7 million votes and Democratic House candidates received 16.4 million votes.

The accusations are flying thick and fast between former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who are locked in a battle of wills over redistricting reform.

The proposed fix, hammered out in 2012 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, would hand over redistricting to a 10 - member panel: eight members selected by the four legislative conference leaders and two selected by the initial members.

Overall the FOIL request, filed for all written and electronic communications between the governor's top advisers and registered lobbyists between Jan. 1 and March 31 — the height of the state's budget - making process as well as the lengthy fight over redistricting — yielded very little.

He fired most of the teachers and administrators allegedly involved with cheating, and he hasn't shied away from controversy during battles over redistricting and school leadership.

For the first time since 1991, a Democrat will have veto power over redistricting.

One year ago, we launched the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) to develop the first - ever comprehensive redistricting plan that can unrig Republican control over the redistricting process, undo gerrymandering and restore fairness to our democracy.

But with the two parties sharing power in Albany and each holding a veto over the redistricting process, it is probably inevitable that one of the two seats the state loses will be a Democratic - held one.

In Massachusetts, the state legislature has control over the redistricting process.

As my colleague Dylan Matthews showed, Republicans used their control over the redistricting process to great effect, packing Democrats into tighter and tighter districts and managing to restructure races so even a slight loss for Republicans in the popular vote still meant a healthy majority in the House.