Sentences with phrase «redistricting plan»

The legislature proved unable to pass its own congressional redistricting plan.

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.

If the legislature can not approve a state legislative redistricting plan, a five - member commission must draw the lines.

The legislature must reject two separate sets of redistricting plans before it will be able to amend the commission's proposals.

The new redistricting plan would leave each of those two boroughs with nine.

He signed the budget already instead of using his budgetary line item veto power on the partisan redistricting plan that was in the budget.

Both chambers of the state legislature must approve a single redistricting plan.

Yesterday the legislature passed a Congressional redistricting plan and sent the bill to the governor for approval.

They passed legislation creating a gaming amendment to the state constitution, a new teacher evaluation system, an all - crimes DNA database, pension reform and a legislative redistricting plan.

He signed off on a Republican - drawn redistricting plan for Senate districts after getting them to concede to an independent process for the next round in 2022.

Former City Councilman Archie Spigner (r.) blasts the state task force redistricting plan as Jamaica NAACP head Leroy Gadsden (l.) and NAACP members look on.

The measure is an attempt to use California's veto referendum process to nullify the California State Senate redistricting plan approved by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

The Kingston City School District has received bids on three of their former elementary schools, two of which were shuttered over the past two years as part of a comprehensive redistricting plan which sought to address declining student enrollment.

Both majorities are expected to pass revised redistricting plans next week that Republicans say address the governor's concerns.

This is not the first governor named Cuomo to struggle with whether to sign a flawed legislative redistricting plan into law.

The district picks up republican voters under the special master's redistricting plan which is expected to be approved later this week, and is now expected to have a plus 7 in the Cook partisan voting rating.

1) The Supreme Court rules the Texas redistricting plan unconstitutional: Previous lines are restored and (depending on if they are used for the 2006 elections) Democrats gain six seats in the House and Republicans lose 6.

Mr. Levy was trial counsel to the New Jersey Legislative Redistricting Commission assigned to defend a challenge to the legislature redistricting plan created after the 1990 census.

Councilman Donovan Richards, who co-chairs the caucus said the proposition would lock a flawed redistricting plan in the state's constitution for decades, adding that the ballot's «weak principles and political controls,» would negatively impact communities.

from the U.S. Department of Justice before adopting redistricting plans or making other changes to their election laws — a requirement struck down by the United States Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013).

The main obstacle that could divert this plan from being enacted is the Legislature suddenly coming together to pass their own map before the court's process is finished, possibly with a signature on the plan from Governor Andrew Cuomo that effects their alternative redistricting plan into law.

And the final redistricting plan did not create an additional district within the town of Ramapo.

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).

On Thursday, the US District Court ordered lawyers for the Assembly Majority to advise the Court by next Tuesday, May 15, 2012, about the status of the DOJ preclearance process as it relates to the Assembly Redistricting Plan and the status of the Section 5 litigation before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

That being said, it pains me to see the North Fork split up in the new redistricting plan put forward by the Majority,» Mr. Losquadro said in a statement.

The Saratoga County GOP was supposed to meet this weekend to endorse a candidate in the 43rd SD, but Chairman Jasper Nolan delayed the get - together, citing the lack of a final redistricting plan.

As the Kingston City School District's Board of Education prepped for its public forum on a comprehensive redistricting plan tonight,

The legislators who have designed a statewide redistricting plan took extraordinary pains to protect Grisanti by sculpturing him a friendlier district.

Many union members accused lawmakers of selling them out in order to win agreement from Governor Cuomo on a favorable redistricting plan, which was also passed in the middle of the night.

«So long as a State has «redistricted in the manner provided by the law thereof» — as Arizona did by utilizing the independent commission procedure in its Constitution — the resulting redistricting plan becomes the presumptively governing map,» Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey testifies July 13, 2011, at legislative hearing on Republican redistricting plans in Madison.

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

Donohue made it clear this decision is a «direct result» of the deal struck last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, in which organized labor believes the governor «traded» his approval on the LATFOR redistricting plans for lawmakers» support of pension reform.

Julian Schreibman, the Democratic candidate seeking election this fall to represent the new 19th Congressional District, which will replace Hinchey's old seat under the recent redistricting plan, called Hinchey «a national treasure.»

Carlucci should've been ousted after voting for the terrible redistricting plan.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

The Senate GOP's redistricting plan called for eradicating Kruger's former district, the 27th SD.

«I said during the campaign, when I was first running, that we have to stop the gerrymandering and that I support an independent commission so we have a non-partisan redistricting plan.

It's widely expected that the DOJ will approve the Assembly's redistricting plan sometime within the next 5 - 7 days.

Even more troubling is the fact that the new county redistricting plans, which don't go into effect until 2014, have already been finalized, so any hope that the district could be redrawn to better serve the North Fork is lost.

Shelter Island and the Brookhaven Town side of Calverton and Wading River will no longer be in Suffolk County Legislator Ed Romaine's district in 2014 if a new redistricting plan announced this week is approved.

The court - drawn redistricting plan changed all that, putting the entire new district inside the borders of Monroe County — a move seen as a boon to Brooks.

When will Rochester present their police department redistricting plan?

JOHN GRIFFIN FILE PHOTO Marc Alessi is one of four former Assembly members we reached out to this week for their thoughts on the current redistricting plan.