Sentences with phrase «power over the redistricting»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Del Conte, however, may have made the bigger point during a panel focused on the retrospective (we think) of conference realignment, an idea whose core spawned the explosive redistricting of college football's powers over the last decade.

The DSCC has been fundraising very aggressively in preparation for the epic battle it will be waging this fall against the outgunned (in cash terms, anyway) SRCC for control of the chamber — a crucial fight, since whoever has power over the next round of redistricting will have he upper hand for at least the next decade.

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.

He also told The Post's Fred Dicker that good government groups forgot the Legislature has constitutional redistricting power when they went on a «tirade» over the Senate and Assembly lines, adding:

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.