Sentences with phrase «proposed redistricting plan»

In addition to lumping Shelter Island with the South Fork, the proposed redistricting plan aims to move the Brookhaven Town side of Calverton into Mr. Schneiderman's district and the Brookhaven Town portion of Wading River into the 6th Legislative District, which is represented by Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai).

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

Not exact matches

Judge Roanne Mann has until March 12 to give her recommendation for the state's proposed congressional plan, according to lawyer Dan Burstein, one of the plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit to have the redistricting process put -LSB-...]

Earlier in 2012, a three - judge panel approved a New York State Congressional redistricting plan that was strikingly similar to Unity Maps proposed by the same coalition.

He would be running in the so - called «Super-Jewish» district proposed by the Senate Republicans, assuming their redistricting plan withstands the Democrats» court challenge.

Next, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — a fellow Democrat — declined to keep his pledge to veto any redistricting plan drawn up in the traditional (read: politically controlled) manner, signing the gerrymandered maps proposed by the GOP into law.

Buerkle fared better in redistricting at the hands of the court - appointed special master, Magistrate Judge Roann Mann, than she did in the plans proposed by the Senate and Assembly.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The New York Senate's Republican majority proposed a legislative redistricting plan Thursday that contorted what are supposed to be compact election districts into some odd shapes to connect dwindling Republican pockets in the blue state.

[T] he redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts... The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional redistricting plan does not have a discriminatory effect.

In the meantime, the legislative task force on redistricting plans to hold a series of hearings over the next few weeks, to seek public comment on the proposed lines.

The good government groups that back a proposed constitutional change to the state's redistricting process plan a voter outreach and education effort in the lead - up to the Nov. 4 election.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

With respect to Congressional redistricting, the Missouri General Assembly bears primary responsibility, proposing and passing the redistricting plan as ordinary legislation.