Whitford on Tuesday, McCain and Whitehouse argue that the redistricting map is the result of excessive partisan redistricting.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which Holder is leading, was launched last year ahead of the 2020 redistricting process.
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Redistricting will happen in 2022, after the 2020 census is conducted, unless Republicans move a stop-gap redistricting map earlier.
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If Democrats and progressives want to more clout in redistricting, talking about redistricting can only help up to a point.
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Barack Obama's old campaign group, Organizing for Action, is joining the redistricting efforts of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Politico reports.
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The ballot proposal would amend Michigan's constitution to take redistricting away from the legislature and create an Independent Citizens' Redistricting Commission.
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And in Colorado, another coalition plans two ballot initiatives — one that would reform congressional redistricting, and another to reform legislative redistricting.
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He said he abandoned a sideline as a redistricting adviser and expert witness in redistricting lawsuits after finishing work in Wisconsin.
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He currently serves as the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a group focusing on voting rights and redistricting issues.
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He served as redistricting counsel to two New York City Council redistricting commissions and to both chambers in the New York Legislature.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder leads the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which seeks independent redistricting commissions but also wants to elect Democrats.
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So far, the Supreme Court has never struck down an election district or redistricting plan redistricting court as an unconstitutional political gerrymander.
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The National Redistricting Foundation, an affiliate of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee, filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court on Monday.
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In Missouri, voters approved an independent redistricting commission as part of a broader lobbying, campaign finance, and redistricting commission 22010 percent to 20203.
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The National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT), which launched last Thursday, will use data and "serve as a central resource" for GOP redistricting efforts.
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The National Redistricting Foundation, which is affiliated with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), is providing financial and legal support for the suit.
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In Missouri, voters approved an independent redistricting commission as part of a broader lobbying, campaign finance, and redistricting commission 62 percent to 38.
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This will be a crucial contest for the next redistricting — and, meanwhile, the state's voters also approved a moderate reform to that redistricting process.
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A new wave of initiatives that created truly independent redistricting boards began in 2000, when Arizona voters approved an overhaul of the redistricting process.
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When they do, Obama is expected to take direction from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the former president's redistricting initiative, regarding endorsements and appearances.
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To the Editor: "Do-It-Yourself Legislative Redistricting" (editorial, July 22) focuses on an important approach to combating partisan gerrymandering: the independent redistricting commission.
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Holder, who served as attorney general under President Obama, is the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a group that focuses on redistricting.
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Redistricting U will send trainers throughout the country to offer free, in-person instruction and help to volunteers involved in the redistricting process in states.
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With state legislatures or political commissions controlling redistricting in over two-thirds of states, redistricting is something that voters could see on their ballots again.
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A lower court tossed out the Virginia redistricting plan, and elicited and ultimately settled on an alternative neutral redistricting plan during the remedial phase of litigation.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that backs Democrats in redistricting fights, will also seek to intervene.
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In absence of simple standards that would make automated redistricting truly feasible, Altman and McDonald suggest another approach to the redistricting problem: using algorithms to foster transparency.
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Proponents of redistricting reform in other states are considering advancing their own ballot measures, in places like Arkansas and Oregon, ahead of the next round of redistricting.
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Proposal 2 would change the state's constitution to set up an independent redistricting commission in time for the next scheduled redistricting after the 2020 Census is released.
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Following the establishment of standing nonpartisan redistricting commissions, Arizona, Washington, and California are now the only three states that are required to solicit public input on redistricting decisions.
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As they argued in an article for Scholars Strategy Network, the internet, coupled with sophisticated and accessible redistricting software, can allow for mass participation in the redistricting process.
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The National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), an arm of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee, says it's working to get black voters an equal opportunity to elect their chosen candidates.
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Redistricting does not happen until 2020, the year when Democrats would hope to get back enough statehouses to make up for the redistricting shellacking they took in 2010.
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Voters in Michigan, Missouri and South Dakota are all likely to face redistricting reform initiatives in November, while the Supreme Court considers redistricting cases involving North Carolina and Wisconsin.
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Former attorney general Eric Holder launched the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, aimed at helping the party win majorities in state houses and senate ahead of the 2020 redistricting process.
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Background: Barack Obama has made redistricting a post-presidency focus, launching the Democrat National Redistricting Committee along with Eric Holder, which has raised $11 million in its first 6 months.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE joked over the summer that he plans to "make redistricting sexy" as head of the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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With her consulting firm, Q2 Data & Research, LLC, she served as the principal redistricting consultant to the state's Citizens Redistricting Commission which constructed California's congressional and legislative districts in 2011.
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The move sets up the court for a potential blockbuster term — setting standards on voting rights relating to redistricting — before the next nationwide round of redistricting begins after the 2020 Census.
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Our strategy involves four key components: overturning illegal gerrymandering in the courts; winning critical state elections; investing in ballot initiatives on redistricting; and building the infrastructure for the 2021 redistricting process.
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But Republicans will still run the redistricting there in 2020 unless Democrats make additional gains next time around, because the governor in North Carolina does not have a say in redistricting.
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Again, the lawsuit involves a statute — the redistricting map.
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In a sign of just how little the two major political parties paid attention to the redistricting process, Hofeller both ran the RNC's redistricting program and served as its information technology director.
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Democrats, stung by a redistricting process that left them battling Republican-friendly maps in dozens of states, have united around a redistricting reform project spearheaded by former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Assuming the four states where voters supported independent redistricting commissions respect the wishes of their voters and follow through, that will up the number of states with truly independent redistricting commissions to 12.
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"For too long, the important task of redistricting has resembled a back-alley brawl: no rules, no referees, and no holds barred," Dan Vicuña, Common Cause's national redistricting manager, said in a statement.
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One of his main focuses has been working with and fundraising for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization aimed at battling partisan redistricting that's chaired by his former attorney general, Eric Holder.
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If the new First Amendment theory works in Michigan, it would be a way to bring down similar commissions elsewhere, including in Arizona and California, and for all redistricting (not just congressional redistricting).
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Redistricting had always been a game of honor among thieves.
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The GOP controlled much of redistricting during the 2010 cycle.
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Beyond this, redistricting driven by partisan bias is actually legal.
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That fact illustrates the major difficulty in instituting redistricting changes.
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It informs decisions about resource allocation and, crucially, political redistricting.
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Enacting legislation to establish independent redistricting commissions to tackle gerrymandering.
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Holding and Ellmers ended up facing off because of redistricting.
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He is the Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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An upcoming redistricting exercise may reduce these MPs to four.
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But in part due to a 2010 redistricting, his moderate
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In Illinois, Democrats will control the redistricting process once Gov.
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But redistricting didn't bring Khanna the district he'd hoped for.
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With that, we lost control of redistricting and voter protection.
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People want [the redistricting process] to be fair and independent.
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Ohio voters already approved a redistricting commission earlier this year.
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This is the most voter activity on redistricting in years.
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Martin Frost, whose seat had become deep red through redistricting.
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Schwarzenegger recently campaigned for redistricting initiatives in Colorado and Michigan.
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Go deeper: Here's where the big redistricting court fights stand
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Go deeper: Here's where the big redistricting court fights stand.
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Oral argument has not been scheduled for these redistricting cases.
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Ignoring the racial redistricting problem won't make it go away.
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There is one more election cycle before redistricting in 2021.
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"Our redistricting process was entirely lawful and constitutional," he said.
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Mica's district became more Democratic as a result of redistricting.
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Wisconsin State Assembly elections (before and after redistricting in 2011).
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They've won commanding legislative majorities and controlled the redistricting process.
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"We basically have a Wild West of redistricting," GOP Rep.
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Congress is certainly not going to do anything about redistricting.
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Both were incumbents; they faced each other because of redistricting.
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A tax form filed by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an establishmentarian group led by Eric Holder, a former attorney-general, says the organisation's purpose is to "favourably position Democrats for the redistricting process".
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And they say waiting for a political solution is a Catch-22 — you can change the redistricting process by winning elections, but the redistricting process makes it almost impossible for you to win elections.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee to win state and local campaigns in overlapping competitive House, Senate and governors' races and regain control of the 2022 redistricting cycle.
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REDMAP, as the Republican redistricting programme was dubbed, wasn't shy about its goals ("maintain[ing] a Republican stronghold in the US House of Representatives for the next decade") or its methods ("controlling the redistricting process").
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, formed in 2017 under Mr. Holder, aims to contest a combination of governorships, legislative seats and more obscure state offices to chip away at Republicans' control of the redistricting process.
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In that 2015 case, Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the Supreme Court divided 5-4 over whether statewide voter initiatives taking congressional redistricting power away from legislatures and giving them to independent commissions are even constitutional.
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A more conservative majority could conceivably strike down redistricting commissions nationwide.
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These, Ward says, are the "building blocks" to succeeding in redistricting.
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The electoral battle for redistricting dominance isn't a one-off contest.
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The 2010 redistricting has already given Republicans the upper hand, politically.
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Redistricting has helped Herrera Beutler coast to victory in past years.
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That's why the National Democratic Redistricting Commission is targeting the state.
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That's because Democrats won a redistricting battle in Pennsylvania in February.
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But beyond that, not every redistricting is designed to increase polarization.
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These smaller governmental entities will also engage in redistricting in 2021.
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Extreme partisan gerrymandering reached new levels during the 2011 redistricting process.
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Redistricting typically is done by the party controlling a state's legislature.
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By 2015, redistricting had candidates shifting districts along Florida's Gulf coast.
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A lower court agreed and tossed out the Virginia redistricting plan.
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The board is scheduled to vote on redistricting on Nov. 21.
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Fair representation should be the first tenet of any redistricting effort.
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Truth is, both sides will engage in this redistricting arms race.
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Redistricting after the 85033 Census has made the region solidly Republican.
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Coffman acknowledged that the redistricting led him to revise his stances.
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Eight states, including battleground Ohio, already have non-partisan redistricting commissions.
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The redistricting battles in North Carolina predate the Republicans' legislative dominance.
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Whitford, a challenge to Wisconsin's 2011 redistricting plan, and Benisek v.
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This is the third redistricting case on its docket this term.
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"Tom Hofeller invented modern redistricting," Mr. Daley said in an interview.
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The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a redistricting effort in North Carolina.
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The justices also suspended Texas redistricting while they consider an appeal.
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Virginia is one state moving toward creating an independent redistricting committee.
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Typically, redistricting occurs once every 10 years after the U.S. census.
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The census count affects redistricting and federal grant spending until 2030.
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Hofeller, a mastermind of GOP redistricting preached keeping electronic records secure.
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One Democratic seat — which is open because redistricting has pushed Rep.
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In most states, redistricting is done by the party in power.
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Dave Lewis admitted as much in 2016, during the redistricting process.
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Dave Lewis admitted as much in 22, during the redistricting process.
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The big picture: Redistricting U is an extension of the All on the Line campaign, which launched this year as part of Obama's Organizing for Action and former Attorney General Eric Holder's National Redistricting Action Fund.
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Now, he's playing a key role with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which is working to help Democrats gain a better foothold in the 85033 redistricting process through legal action, grassroots engagement and backing Democratic candidates.
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"Democrats who sued to prohibit partisan redistricting have demanded their preferred partisan outcomes in exchange for voting to support new congressional maps," the Republican chairman of the Senate redistricting committee, Ralph Hise, said in a statement.
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"The Supreme Court is a pretty big planet, and its gravitational pull is pretty strong," said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who tracks redistricting cases on his All About Redistricting website.
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The redistricting reform project headed by former Obama Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Gore already had a history of defending voting and redistricting laws that would hurt communities of color; he defended redistricting plans in Virginia, South Carolina, New York, and Florida that gave black voters less influence in Congress.
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Colorado's proposal to allow independent commissions to handle redistricting garnered over 70%.
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We're currently living amidst the consequences of Democrats losing the redistricting game.
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This seems to me a largely unknown part of the redistricting story.
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Dan Malloy, who is leading the redistricting group along with Virginia Gov.
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Enter Holder and the group he chairs, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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"The whole judge's ruling was vexatious," Lyman said, referring to the redistricting.
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Robert Reives, one of the Democrats who led the party's redistricting efforts.
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In Michigan, voters approved an independent redistricting commission 212 percent to 238.
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In most states, this redistricting is done by the party in power.
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The pair have donated to many ballot redistricting efforts around the country.
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Miller, 115 S.Ct. 20153 (1995), that redistricting plans constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
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Miller, 115 S.Ct. 2475 (1995), that redistricting plans constitute unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
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Redistricting will occur in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
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It would go into effect for the next redistricting process in 2021.
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The impact of the Republican REDMAP redistricting plan has been well documented.
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Texas ultimately adopted that remedial plan as its redistricting map in 22019.
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Voters across the country and across the aisle support non-partisan redistricting.
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In comparison, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee plans to raise $2900 million.
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But redistricting this year made the electorate even more favorable toward Republicans.
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Eleven have set up independent redistricting commissions or other politically neutral mechanisms.
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Race also figures in cases on redistricting, fair housing and malicious prosecution.
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One wildcard in how things shake out is the impact of redistricting.
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In Michigan, voters approved an independent redistricting commission 61 percent to 39.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder, meanwhile, is leading the Democratic redistricting effort.
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The November election could have "decadal significance" because of redistricting, said Gov.
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The biggest factor in congressional elections in the state, unquestionably, was redistricting.
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Here are three books that explore the history and implications of redistricting.
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Walker's Greensboro-area seat was sacrificed last month in court-prompted redistricting.
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With another redistricting cycle at hand, the stakes could hardly be higher.
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"Texas obviously is sort of the crown jewel of redistricting," Post said.
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Cillizza: What could change the direction of the debate on partisan redistricting?
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The redistricting itself will reportedly occur in 2021, after the 2020 Census.
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Then the path gets steeper and narrower around the Republican redistricting firewall.
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Whitford, a case out of Wisconsin challenging the redistricting of legislative districts.
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Whitford, which challenged Wisconsin's 22019 redistricting plan as an extreme partisan gerrymander.
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In terms of redistricting statewide, it's a huge, prime opportunity for Democrats.
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In 2011, Wisconsin Republicans controlled redistricting for the first time in decades.
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Back in 2015, four conservative Supreme Court justices voted to strike down Arizona's independent redistricting body, saying the US Constitution guaranteed state legislatures must be involved in redistricting (rather than being cut out through a ballot initiative reform).
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"This new evidence shows there was [a] plan to undermine the integrity of our Census, manipulate redistricting and rig the elections for partisan advantage," said Kathay Feng, the national redistricting director of Common Cause, in a press release.
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However, the recently uncovered documents concern late GOP redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller, who conducted an unpublished study in 2015 that found a citizenship question on the census would help Republicans in redistricting, while hurting Democrats and Hispanic communities.
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Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama is the star of a new video released Wednesday to promote the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization aimed at battling partisan redistricting that's chaired by his former Attorney General Eric Holder.
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But as redistricting technology continues to become more precise, the party that controls the redistricting body — which in most states is the legislature — can keep itself in power by redrawing the maps in its favor after each census.
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In the newest chapter, Latino and African-American advocates have asked a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio to require Texas to submit for pre-approval any statewide redistricting plans enacted for the next decennial redistricting cycle.
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The DLCC has created a hub of state legislative work that will secure electoral wins and drive the party's redistricting efforts with a data-driven, multi-state campaign aimed at winning targeted legislative chambers ahead of 2020 redistricting.
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This is mainly because many state politicians elected this year who get a say in redistricting — largely governors and state senators who serve four-year terms — will be in office in 2021, when the next round of redistricting begins.
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Holder now serves as the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which is working through both political and legal channels to give Democrats more power in the redistricting debates that could help them improve their ranks in statehouses.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group run by former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Wisconsin appears headed for an impasse over redistricting next year with the Republican-controlled state Legislature opposed to Evers's redistricting efforts, although they lack a large enough majority to override a potential veto of a plan of their own.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and allied groups, which brought in $255 million in 20193 alone, are waging the party's comeback bid after a 22019 romp that boxed them out of the redistricting process in nearly every key state.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the group headed by former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Broadly speaking, it is these races that are the electoral battlegrounds for redistricting.
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The redistricting that followed the red wave of 2010 had fortified GOP incumbents.
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Still, that map won't last long, since the next redistricting is coming up.
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Some US states have ostensible redistricting commissions, but let politicians name the appointees.
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Redistricting changed the contours of the southeast area seat and Ryan defeated Rep.
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The term gerrymandering is also sometimes used to describe somewhat different redistricting scenarios.
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This year, the Supreme Court decided to hear two major cases on redistricting.
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Independent redistricting commissions would also almost certainly help Democrats in the immediate future.
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Given the chance to make redistricting more nonpartisan, voters generally support the idea.
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Campaigners for fair redistricting long hoped for some help from the Supreme Court.
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In 373, redistricting made California's 31st district a more favorable landscape for Democrats.
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But the appeal hasn't stopped the federally mandated redistricting from continuing as planned.
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" Then a decade later, he said, "Redistricting is like an election in reverse.
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As several political science studies have shown, polarization is occurring regardless of redistricting.
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I saw the phenomenon of vibrating boundaries aligned with residential redistricting and redlining.
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Several other redistricting-related cases are working their way through various court challenges.
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During the 2011 redistricting, Republicans controlled the majority of statehouses and governor's mansions.
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Perez, the third and final redistricting-related case on its docket this term.
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The state lawsuit asserts the redistricting included numerous examples of blatantly partisan lines.
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Kasich called for redistricting reform in his 2016 State of the State speech.
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The state senators elected Tuesday will serve through the reapportionment and redistricting process.
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Republicans have outflanked Democrats by taking control of redistricting and fortifying their incumbents.
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In a sense, redistricting will be on the ballot in almost every state.
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His district is also about 20 percent Hispanic as a result of redistricting.
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In both New Hampshire and Michigan, nonpartisan redistricting was believed to benefit Democrats.
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Several counties have been sued over redistricting plans that dilute minority voting influence.
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They took control of redistricting and built a firewall against House Democratic gains.
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Redistricting puts Rothfus in the toughest race of his career, against fellow Rep.
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Redistricting made it more Democratic, easing the way for Crist to prevail. Rep.
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The Hofellers retired to Raleigh, N.C., where Hofeller remained active in redistricting circles.
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Others are looking to Arizona, where voters approved a redistricting commission in 2000.
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Why it matters: This is the only redistricting legal battle filed against Democrats.
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At the time of debate, according to the order, House redistricting chief Rep.
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The Supreme Court will decide to what degree Virginia used race when redistricting.
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Consider California, which now has its lines drawn by an independent redistricting commission.
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Democrats were widely expected to flip this seat after Pennsylvania's court-mandated redistricting.
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New Jersey Democrats drop controversial redistricting plan: The move comes after bipartisan criticism.
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The spectacular corruption of the electoral redistricting system — gerrymandering — only compounds the problem.
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Her mother, who had no idea what redistricting was, personally gathered 700 signatures.
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Taking the House is crucial because of the coming 2020 census and redistricting.
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What about the down ballot races in a year that will trigger redistricting?
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They're promoting changes like open primaries, independent redistricting commissions and ranked-choice voting.
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He cited family, the political environment and redistricting as reasons for his decision.
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In Michigan, voters approved a state constitutional amendment creating an independent redistricting commission.
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And with the Census coming up, they'll have a big role in redistricting.
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There are no longer direct references to redistricting or racial gerrymandering, BuzzFeed reported.
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American voters of all parties are entitled to fair elections and nonpartisan redistricting.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE's redistricting group (CNN).
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Other Democrats involved in the redistricting fight are sharing some of those targets.
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What are some nonpartisan ways states can go about redistricting in the future?
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One of the documents the group uncovered was an unpublished 2015 study by an influential Republican redistricting expert, who found that the addition of the citizenship question could benefit "Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" if the data were used in redistricting.
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" The idea to apply computers to the redistricting process as a way to foster transparency and equity was first considered over half-a-century ago in 1961, and in 1965 an algorithm had been described that offered "simplified bipartisan computer redistricting.
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Both North Carolina gerrymandering challenges were backed by the National Redistricting Foundation, the litigation arm of a Democratic group founded by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help break Republican control of the redistricting process in states across the country.
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The new initiative will send trainers for free to train volunteers and provide them with tools to impact the redistricting process in their state and enable them to become leaders in the fair map movement, according to Redistricting U's website.
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The sponsor of the lawsuit, the National Redistricting Foundation, is an arm of a Democratic group led by former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that is seeking to challenge Republican control of the next round of redistricting in 2021.
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Partisan gerrymanders, which often accompany racial ones, are thornier in the legal realm because while racial bias in redistricting is outright unlawful (racial minorities are specifically protected under the Constitution), the court has never found an unlawful incidence of partisan redistricting.
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And since political power is at stake, fights over redistricting are often quite intense.
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And a bipartisan gerrymander is a redistricting meant to protect incumbents of both parties.
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Several states have seen robust legal challenges in recent years over their redistricting processes.
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The new redistricting process looks elaborate and could well result in a bipartisan deal.
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Doing so would also make all districts competitive, something independent redistricting commissions cannot achieve.
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Independent redistricting commissions are more modest but a significant improvement over the status quo.
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They're working with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold Arizona's independent redistricting commission.
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Restrictions on voting, along with aggressive redistricting, reduce the influence of the median voter.
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Miller referred to in the other deleted section, in arguing against Texas's redistricting plans.
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Frank LaRose, the secretary of state has a seat on the state's redistricting commission.
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Ross has not publicly commented on how citizenship data might be used in redistricting.
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The senators elected this year will serve through the next redistricting and reapportionment process.
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Illinois has lost at least one seat in every round of redistricting since 28503.
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Ohio voters passed a similar redistricting reform measure covering state legislative districts in 2015.
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"This will hopefully, finally, lead to truly fair redistricting throughout the country," he said.
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Redistricting is an important part of the process, but it is only one element.
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And so she told me, get involved, and after redistricting, there'll be an opening.
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Still, Holder said the DNC would be an "effective partner" in the redistricting push.
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The most important reform Virginia Democrats could make is to revamp the redistricting process.
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Ohio voters in May approved a statewide measure to establish a new redistricting system.
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As a result, the court ordered the state to create a new redistricting plan.
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Florida's 7th District: Court-ordered redistricting gave Democrats a level playing field for Rep.
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Before the 2010 redistricting, Issa represented some areas of Hunter's neighboring 50th congressional district.
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The last decade of American politics is a case study in why redistricting matters.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) will end July with $10.8 million, Politico reported.
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One seeks to make primaries nonpartisan and another calls for an independent redistricting commission.
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Her political action committee has already donated $100,000 to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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The Obama video follows a series of gerrymandering and redistricting challenges around the country.
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This is proof that redistricting can be approached by action at the state level.
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Several national redistricting measures have been proposed in Congress, though none have gained traction.
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In the 2018 midterms, four more states voted to move redistricting to independent commissions.
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A victory for Texas would maintain the current maps until the planned 2020 redistricting.
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The Census Bureau must present redistricting data to state legislatures by April 1, 2021.
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"That's the first bill, a constitutional amendment to implement independent redistricting," Jackson told me.
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Obama won it in 2008, but the district became more Republican leaning after redistricting.
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Similarly wide disparities appear in hypothetical redistricting for the Arizona and Georgia state senates.
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A proposal would change redistricting procedures to help ensure their party controls the Legislature.
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But even an independent redistricting process still keeps in place the single-winner district.
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Former President Obama announced on Monday the Redistricting U initiative to tackle partisan gerrymandering.
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And we can't wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021.
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One option would be to change the institutional forum in which redistricting is done.
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The Wisconsin case will be closely watched by other states locked in redistricting battles.
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Should school districts follow a redistricting plan like the one proposed in Howard County?
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In October, the justices heard arguments in a case challenging Wisconsin's 2628 redistricting map.
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"Do not worry about us in North Carolina in terms of redistricting," he wrote.
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They reunited at the Republican National Committee during the 2000 and 2010 redistricting cycles.
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Scalia had been a reliable vote for allowing such redistricting plans and voting rules.
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Also, though redistricting makes schools diverse, transferred students may not interact with each other.
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Next year's elections take on a special meaning because of the upcoming redistricting process.
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I am honored to represent a competitive district drawn by a nonpartisan redistricting commission.
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Two years later, he won a different seat created by the post-2010 redistricting.
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Wild and Nothstein are running in a pivotal race made more competitive by redistricting.
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Both parties are already gearing up for 2020, because whoever controls redistricting controls Congress.
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Monday's decision could encourage similar state-court challenges elsewhere, said Li, the redistricting expert.
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Recently discovered hard drives from a deceased GOP redistricting specialist, Thomas Hofeller, showed that obtaining the data required to implement such a citizen-based redistricting system was one reason he urged the Trump administration to include a citizenship question in the census.
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The plaintiffs, North Carolina residents, were sponsored by the National Redistricting Foundation, an arm of a Democratic group led by former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that is seeking to challenge Republican control of the next round of redistricting in 2021.
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As Altman and McDonald acknowledge, the computational limits of the redistricting problem could be addressed if the non-partisan criteria for redistricting was greatly simplified and ranked (for instance, equal populations are more important than compactness, contiguity more important than the rest, etc.).
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The ACLU also took issue with the government's steadfast denial of discriminatory motives for adding the question, when evidence discovered after trial proved that late Republican redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller had hatched the plan as early as 2015 to benefit Republicans during redistricting.
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Organizing for Action (OFA) will fold itself into the Holder-run group, and the merged organization, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), will kick off a campaign, dubbed All On The Line, to promote redistricting reform and participation in the 2020 Census.
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Both major parties have long histories of redistricting in their own interest, but since 2010, the benefits have flowed overwhelmingly to Republicans, who swept into Congress and statehouses around the country just as the decennial census set off a new round of redistricting.
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They are still counting on Pennsylvania and the redistricting there by the State Supreme Court.
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To be clear, both parties have a history of manipulating redistricting for their own advantage.
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And only Scanlon represents a more liberal seat than her Republican predecessor due to redistricting.
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We only picked up six House seats, including three that were the result of redistricting.
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This redistricting plan help Gerry's Republican colleagues hold on to power in the state legislature.
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In Missouri, voters approved a nonpartisan redistricting reform initiative in 2018, and afterward, Republican Gov.
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Control of state chambers grants control over map redistricting, which is currently favorable to Republicans.
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Population shifts tracked by the census have major ramifications in redistricting boundaries for House districts.
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EH: Well, as the chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, I'm going to ... Yeah.
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Court-ordered redistricting three months ago has made the outcome of those races increasingly unpredictable.
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That's because of the longstanding power of the incumbency brought about by decades of redistricting.
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Barack Obama is even considering devoting his political talents to addressing the evils of redistricting.
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A particularly promising approach is the use of independent bodies such as California's redistricting commission.
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Beyond these common elements, redistricting requirements and processes can vary significantly from state to state.
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Residents who brought the suit said there was no compelling interest to do the redistricting.
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"And redistricting gives representation to illegal aliens in different places across this country," King said.
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A ruling this week by the Supreme Court could further complicate the issue of redistricting.
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Phil Murphy controls the state Democratic Party, and therefore the members of the redistricting commission.
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The Republican edge is far lower than it was in the last round of redistricting.
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It was, in 1992, the election after redistricting that created a lot of open seats.
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Democrats' losses in 85033 affected the party's ability to influence redistricting, especially in Midwest states.
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In May, 2003, the redistricting plan came up for a vote in the Texas House.
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In two earlier appeals against redistricting decisions in Virginia, the Supreme Court has disappointed Republicans.
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In a post-redistricting year, new district lines contributed to this rare level of opportunity.
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Once in power, lawmakers in those states used redistricting to entrench their party in office.
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These decisions are likely to reverberate in upcoming elections and the post-2020 Census redistricting.
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Webster decided to run in another congressional district after redistricting made his seat more Democratic.
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"The 2010 redistricting cycle produced some of the worst partisan gerrymanders on record," she wrote.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE's redistricting group sued Wisconsin Gov.
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However the Court decides in these cases, follow-on litigation over redistricting is a certainty.
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The NDRC focuses on redistricting reform and is run by former Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Another fight looms when the next round of redistricting takes place after the 2020 census.
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Whitford, a challenge to the redistricting plan passed by Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature in 2011.
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The four lawsuits over the Republicans' 22004 redistricting plans make their case on racial grounds.
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Note that Pryor wrote the decision upholding a redistricting plan in Alabama Democratic Conference v.
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Insiders note the Democrats who controlled the last redistricting in Albany were not Crowley's friends.
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Vera, eventually went to the Supreme Court, which in 2209 struck down Texas's redistricting plan.
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Why do you think the people in charge of redistricting might have made these decisions?
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The state, now governed by a Democrat, isn't defending its original redistricting plan, and Rep.
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"In terms of redistricting statewide, it's a huge, prime opportunity for Democrats," Field told me.
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David Lewis, chair of the legislature's redistricting effort, once said in defense of his gerrymander.
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It overhauls the makeup of a redistricting committee to give more power to legislative leaders.
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It turns out that Republican redistricting strategist, Thomas Hofeller, had written part of the memo.
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Mr. Pildes is a law professor and has argued on redistricting before the Supreme Court.
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The outcome of this count will have major impacts on redistricting for the next decade.
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But it's also because redistricting has become more targeted as voters have become more predictable.
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Redistricting cracked the liberal enclave of Asheville and transformed the seat into safe GOP territory.
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We should start with nonpartisan redistricting reforms, and a fresh look at the Electoral College.
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As they left the chamber, Hudson denied they had been discussing a specific redistricting map.
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For all these reasons, a focus on redistricting is a good start — but also insufficient.
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The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether it should take on a Texas redistricting case.
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Rucho, in other words, appeared to declare the Supreme Court's neutrality in the redistricting wars.
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"The closer one looks, the less independent the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission appears," Daley writes.
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But would politically neutral redistricting in itself yield significantly more competitive and less polarized politics?
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The independent redistricting commission was formed in 2000 to draw new maps every 10 years.
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They're the ones who register people to vote, turn them out, help in redistricting, etc.
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The first question is whether the Supreme Court will allow any redistricting to go forward.
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What do you see as the role of governors in redistricting in the coming years?
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The redistricting plan proposed by Sessions' office was upheld by a federal judge on appeal.
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In the meantime, the former president will focus on the redistricting efforts led by his former attorney general, Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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A previous case from 2016 dealt with a case of racially motivated redistricting in North Carolina.
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It's considered a big win for Republicans, who control most US statehouses and thus redistricting efforts.
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Redistricting Should courts step in when lawmakers draw up new district maps that favor their party?
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In the Maryland case, Republican voters challenged the state's congressional redistricting plans after the 2010 census.
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That has included litigation over Texas's redistricting plans, which the department challenged under the Obama administration.
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Today, the consent decree provides those in the county who oppose redistricting with an easy defense.
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In 2015, a redistricting commission in Arizona barely survived a constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court.
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Thanks to redistricting, voters in the 18th are now scattered and divided up in new ways.
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If Republicans lose the state House, Democrats will have a stronger influence on the redistricting process.
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And, his prominent role leading Democratic redistricting efforts gives him a national platform and fundraising base.
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In this regard, the past decade has been something of a renaissance era for algorithmic redistricting.
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States like California and Arizona have already terminated gerrymandering by excluding politicians from the redistricting process.
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Some of it is due to redistricting, which Democrats are launching a major effort to reverse.
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"California used to have high partisan bias when politicians were in charge of redistricting," Li said.
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Colorado also looks likely to pass redistricting reform with the support of Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper.
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Today, it has been changed by immigration, redistricting and gentrification, and includes a strong Dominican influence.
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After court-ordered redistricting remade the House district boundaries, the new district became slightly more Democratic.
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Redistricting is currently handled by the state Legislature, which at the moment is controlled by Republicans.
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Kathay Feng, national redistricting director of Common Cause, said she thinks this is that blackboard moment.
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Michigan's Proposition 2 establishes a 13-member redistricting commission and provides criteria for members and maps.
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Afterward, Schwarzenegger will travel to Colorado for a rally in support of a similar redistricting initiative.
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Partisan gerrymandering also has a bipartisan fix through independent redistricting commissions, adopted already in several jurisdictions.
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The voters themselves approved independent redistricting commissions to take politics out of the line-drawing business.
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Since then, a round of redistricting resulted in his district having a 20 percent Hispanic population.
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Last year, voters in Michigan, Colorado, Utah, Missouri and Ohio approved ballot initiatives to reform redistricting.
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Rooney's district representing south-central Florida is considered a safe Republican seat after redistricting in 2010.
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Obama's team is working with Organizing for Action (OFA) and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC).
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But it would also trigger a new wave of litigation, some advocates and redistricting specialists said.
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The district became more Democratic after court-ordered redistricting and includes Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg.
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Twenty measures in 15 states would reshape redistricting, voting requirements, ballot access, campaign finance and ethics.
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In Nebraska, there is a bill that would exclude the noncitizen population from the redistricting process.
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The Supreme Court is now considering whether the redistricting of the State Assembly violates the Constitution.
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Many retirements were inevitable, but the number — the highest since 1992, a redistricting year — was not.
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Danielle Lang is senior legal counsel for voting rights and redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center.
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Probably the biggest challenge for the Dems is the Republicans-controlled redistricting from eight years ago.
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In a rare move, a group of lawmakers voted to give up their own redistricting power.
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The initiative would train volunteers to impact their states' redistricting processes, according to its web page.
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Redistricting recognized the shifting demographics that have remade the region from a once-solid Republican enclave.
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The former occurs every ten years as states undergo the decennial rituals of reapportionment and redistricting.
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It is not known whether Republican President Donald Trump's administration will continue opposing the Texas redistricting.
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Deeds also blamed state Republicans, who prioritized redistricting as they gained control of the General Assembly.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to agree, saying the redistricting plan "doesn't belong" solely to the House.
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Also at stake is control of redistricting in the fifth-most-populous state in the nation.
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OFA merged with the NDRC last year, in part to prepare for this decade's redistricting cycle.
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And redistricting in recent years has made it even tougher to topple incumbents of either party.
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Davis lauded Bloomberg as a "fighter," mentioning their past work together on gun control and redistricting.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE's group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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Indeed, a decision reading the word "legislature" narrowly could have sweeping implications for the redistricting wars.
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She serves as the state's liaison to the Census bureau's Redistricting and Voting Rights Data program.
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The state's Republican-dominated Legislature controlled redistricting after population data from the 2000 census became available.
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So, of course, this district isn't going to exist in a couple of months after redistricting.
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OFA will also partner with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the group spearheaded by former Obama administration Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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One Wisconsin Institute, with the support of the National Redistricting Foundation, a group headed by former Obama Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Organizing For Action (OFA) will officially partner with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), led by Obama's former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., has targeted state-level political offices in a dozen states this year, aiming to increase Democratic control of statehouses before the next round of redistricting in 2021.
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I think redistricting plays a role — after the 2010 midterm election, when Republicans took back control of the House, they also won full control of a lot of state legislatures and governors seats, which allowed them to have full control over redistricting of many more House seats.
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Notorious Republican redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller helped write the Department of Justice memo that made that argument.
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Redistricting is most nationally consequential in states that have two features: they're populous and they're politically divided.
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A win for Democrats in this race could shut out Republicans from redistricting decisions made in 2021.
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Danielle Lang, senior legal counsel for voting rights and redistricting at the the Campaign Legal Center, agrees.
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And state governments are critical in the fight against redistricting, which is usually designed to disadvantage Democrats.
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Redistricting takes place every 10 years, based on the latest Census data showing where American voters live.
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Martin O'Malley, who was overseeing the redistricting process, took particular aim at the state's 6th congressional district.
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The "efficiency gap" measure found the redistricting in Wisconsin caused Democrats to waste more votes than Republicans.
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The court was also being asked to endorse a standard for redistricting that would then apply nationwide.
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In that case, Democrats in the state lodged challenges to the redistricting map crafted by Republican lawmakers.
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This shift in Georgia environmentalism, fortified by redistricting, served Gingrich and the Georgia Republican Party extraordinarily well.
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And those state houses often set a remarkable amount of energy policy, in addition to controlling redistricting.
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It became increasingly competitive and less heavily Republican-leaning following court-ordered redistricting before the 2016 elections.
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He initially represented the Michigan Fourth, before being elected to the Michigan Sixth in 1992 after redistricting.
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The 2001 and 2011 redistricting processes were hugely driven by a mission to draw incumbent-friendly maps.
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While the district had been represented by Republican Charlie Dent, redistricting opened up more left-tilting territory.
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A ruling against North Carolina's partisan redistricting plan is also in the pipeline toward the high court.
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On the Senate side, where redistricting isn't a factor, Democrats are a victim of their own successes.
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But the courts have more to do to safeguard the rights of African Americans from redistricting wrongdoings.
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In one case, the eight justices considered a lower court ruling against a North Carolina redistricting effort.
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It elicited and ultimately settled on an alternative, neutral redistricting plan during the remedial phase of litigation.
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For Republicans, preparation met opportunity through the Republican State Leadership Committee's (RSLC) 220006 REDistricting MAjority Project (REDMAP).
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"That's redistricting, and that's the districts and the way they are drawn," Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg explained.
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Second, the rise of computerized redistricting software allows for more precise and sophisticated map-drawing than before.
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Around the country, all but a handful of states allow their legislatures to control the redistricting process.
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"You're always going to have some amount of partisanship in redistricting," he told The Hill this week.
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Republicans controlled the 2011 redistricting process and drew a map that favored their party across the state.
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It elicited and ultimately settled on an alternative, neutral redistricting plan during the remedial phase of litigation.
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Voters in Colorado and Utah approved constitutional amendments to place redistricting in the hands of independent commissions.
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In 2012, lawmakers in Arizona sued to overturn a redistricting commission that the state's voters had approved.
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In April, Nebraska's Republican-dominated Legislature voted 29-15 to set up an independent redistricting commission. Gov.
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Several municipalities have also created independent redistricting commissions to draw local lines, removing politicians from the process.
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The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now.
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Voters in Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, and Utah, approved amendments, proposals, or propositions on redistricting in 22019.
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However, thanks to redistricting based on the 2010 Census, most U.S. House districts are safe for Republicans.
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She came back to the House in 2013 after switching to Nevada's 1st District due to redistricting.
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To stop gerrymandering, Warren will require states to use independent redistricting commissions to draw federal congressional districts.
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More than 6900 of those seats are "locked" and safe, Walden said, in part because of redistricting.
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Court-ordered redistricting had made Forbes's previous district more Democratic, making his odds of reelection much tougher.
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Winning back control of state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Michigan could help Democrats in redistricting after 2020.
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Crunching numbers and aiding state and local party organizations, he quickly became the national party's redistricting guru.
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Republican leaders have long described control of the redistricting process as one of the party's prized assets.
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Four states last month approved ballot measures that would create some form of an independent redistricting commission.
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The same is true of children, who are politically powerless yet universally counted for redistricting and apportionment.
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A second approach would be to enlist the power of technology to create politically fair redistricting maps.
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In California, where Democrats dominate, redistricting created a half-dozen newly competitive House seats, Mr. Forbes said.
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If Texas legislators do not begin a redistricting process, the court will hold a hearing on Sept.
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The growth of urban and suburban locales will play a major role in redistricting after the census.
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Nonpartisan redistricting in all 50 states would break partisan gerrymandering and force incumbents to compete for votes.
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Democrats gained another expected seat in southeastern Virginia, where redistricting helped propel Democrat Donald McEachin to victory.
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If we want to cure redistricting, it's clear that we must start by taking on districting itself.
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Now, he runs the National Republican Redistricting Trust, a new outside group headed by former Wisconsin Gov.
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But Mr. Fitzpatrick has gained little traction, at least so far, on a pet issue: redistricting reform.
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Republicans have disclosed relatively few details about how they plan to win 2020's pre-redistricting elections.
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"They got really greedy during redistricting both for congressional districts and for state House seats," said Rep.
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He currently chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a liberal group focused on the issue of gerrymandering.
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It would also enable them to manipulate redistricting to help the candidates and political parties they favor.
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The Florida Panhandle-area seat had become even more favorable to Republicans this year due to redistricting.
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It also positions the party to control the next round of redistricting ahead of the 2020 census.
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Ralph Hise, North Carolina's state Senate redistricting chairman, told Reuters through a spokeswoman that Republicans would appeal.
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They want the task of redistricting returned to Michigan's legislature, where Republicans hold majorities in both houses.
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Much of "Ratf**ked" is devoted to a Republican scheme optimistically called REDMAP , for Redistricting Majority Project.
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Martin O'Malley, who was overseeing the redistricting process, took particular aim at the state's 6th Congressional District.
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The 2012 Republican redistricting coup has simply taken too many blue and bluish districts off the map.
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HR 85033 includes significant reforms in redistricting, ethics, disclosure and election security, changes that Americans overwhelmingly support.
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Because of redistricting, they have a structural advantage that is not easy for the Democrats to overcome.
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About a quarter of U.S. states have given a commission either full or partial authority in redistricting.
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But it's in his post-presidency that redistricting will be a priority for his fundraising and campaigning.
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Redistricting will play a crucial role in determining how much a political party benefits from congressional reapportionment.
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The Court has also been unwilling to intervene against even the most extreme political partisanship in redistricting.
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Continue to push for changes in how redistricting is done Finally, whether they be citizens commissions or other changes, the best way to prevent the unfair redistricting that has allowed Republicans to have death grips on legislatures is for us to win the 2018 elections at every level.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, formed last year under the leadership of Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, has settled on a strategy to contest a combination of governorships, legislative seats and more obscure state offices to chip away at Republicans' sweeping control of the redistricting process.
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But we did get one presentation from a distinguished scholar of redistricting matters who explained that redistricting is a particularly hard problem to solve because there are a number of different goals that are mostly incompatible: Sometimes you can make this all work together, but oftentimes you can't.
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Justice Alito began by surveying the constitutional and statutory constraints states face with regard to race and redistricting.
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Leading Democrats are well aware that the party leadership inexcusably dropped the ball on redistricting last time around.
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Naturally, though, existing GOP state legislative majorities tend to want to hold on to their control of redistricting.
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Winning the governorship in any of these states would guarantee Democrats a seat at the table in redistricting.
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This is the brainchild of some of the same people who were involved in the 2010 redistricting scheme.
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WASHINGTON-- The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now.
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The Point: The census -- and the redistricting process that it's based on it -- isn't the sexiest political topic.
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For the second time in recent history, the Court would tackle the infamous subject of politically motivated redistricting.
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Instead, the former two-term governor said he will set his sights on challenging the redistricting status quo.
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The National Republican Redistricting Trust, a group that backs Republican efforts to redraw electoral districts, criticized the ruling.
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Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa looks at legislative district maps prior to a Senate Redistricting committee hearing in May 2013.
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In response, Paul Clement, the lawyer representing the state, portrayed the redistricting effort as a "bipartisan success story".
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States' redistricting processes vary; Justin Levitt of Loyola Law School has a good breakdown of how they work.
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James Whitehorne, the chief of the Census Bureau's Redistricting & Voting Rights Office, called the federal register notice routine.
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This could have major implications for federal funding and redistricting, prompting claims that the move was politically motivated.
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Should both states approve proportional representation, the bill would empower state redistricting committees to develop multi-member districts.
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With these inputs and parameters exposed, data scientists hope this will hopefully incentivize a more equitable redistricting process.
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Keen for influence over redistricting, Democrats' top targets include open governors' seats in Florida, Michigan, Nevada and Ohio.
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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court also ruled last week that the state's Republican-led redistricting plan violated the state constitution.
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What yesterday's elections mean, then, is that Democrats can greatly influence the redistricting process, at least in Virginia.
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Late-breaking Democratic challenger Stephanie Murphy benefited from redistricting that made the district more favorable to her party.
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The initiative includes an amendment to the state constitution and the creation of an Independent Citizen's Redistricting Commission.
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"Because of redistricting, Americans live in two incredibly separate worlds, Republican [Congressional Districts] versus Democratic CDs," McInturff said.
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Even some Democrats who advocate for a fairer redistricting process said the New Jersey proposal was an overreach.
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They could even go the California route and establish a bipartisan commission to carry out comprehensive redistricting reform.
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And they will preside over the next redistricting that will shape political power in Virginia for a decade.
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He could decide to run for reelection even though court-ordered redistricting made his seat more Democratic-leaning.
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Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Some Republicans in states where redistricting measures are on the ballot are skeptical of the good-government intent.
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Pennsylvania's 14th District is currently held by a Democrat, but will likely be Republican following the state's redistricting.
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One measure will establish an independent redistricting commission after a decade of Republican-led gerrymandering in the state.
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Michigan is one of a handful of states considering redistricting reforms as well, alongside Colorado, Missouri, and Utah.
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The Democratic victory in Virginia sets the stage for leveling the redistricting playing field that's so advantaged Republicans.
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As GOP operative Thomas Hofeller's posthumously-released files demonstrate, this would, by design, boost Republican power during redistricting.
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Section 2202 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits "vote dilution" that produces discrimination in the results of redistricting.
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The NRCC chairman said that redistricting in states has limited the number of competitive races around the country.
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Larry Hogan's repeated calls for a non-partisan redistricting commission to draw new lines following the 2020 census.
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Several more states, including Colorado, Michigan, and Utah, will likely have redistricting reform on the ballot this fall.
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Not only is the party ill-positioned to fight further redistricting efforts, it's harmed its candidate recruitment efforts.
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That gave Republicans a seat at the redistricting table, from which they had been shut out for generations.
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It wants to help Democrats win state legislative seats in targeted states ahead of the 2021 congressional redistricting.
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If successful, the suit would move up the timetable by two years for congressional redistricting reform in Ohio.
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Some Democrats hope the influence of state legislatures on redistricting could be diluted by anti-gerrymandering ballot initiatives.
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Voter suppression laws include things like, requiring identification, kicking people off voter rolls due to inactivity, and redistricting.
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Meanwhile, Democrats, led by Holder, are for the first time putting money into the fight for honest redistricting.
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In 2010, the Republican Party put $30 million into a project called Redmap, short for Redistricting Majority Project.
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The effects would also bleed into the redistricting of the House and state legislatures in the next decade.
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Last election cycle, five states had ballot initiatives that were designed to make the redistricting process more fair.
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In a statement Thursday, Mr. Lewis praised the ruling for keeping the courts out of the redistricting process.
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These differences would affect how redistricting lines are drawn, in ways political scientists have not yet thoroughly modeled.
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Daryl Deford, a postdoctoral associate at M.I.T., has generated 50,000 possible redistricting plans for the Texas State Senate.
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Though Mr. Murphy is a Democrat, the redistricting plan would greatly weaken his ability to influence the process.
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As a result of redistricting, she was thrown into a new district with a freshman Democrat, Barney Frank.
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"Plaintiffs are asking this court to launch a redistricting revolution based upon their social science metrics," he said.
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QUESTION 8 NEVADA QUESTION 4 NONPARTISAN REDISTRICTING VOTER REQUIREMENTS, BALLOT ACCESS Expand access Restrict access MICH. MICH. MONT.
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The vote on a Utah ballot question that would establish a redistricting commission is too close to call.
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If one believes that partisan symmetry should be a goal in redistricting, the new map is eminently fair.
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Arizona's bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission sprang from a 2000 ballot initiative fiercely resisted by the state's Republican Legislature.
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But the court said in November that the redistricting clearly aimed to entrench Republican control of the Assembly.
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The Republican-led Legislature that passed the voter ID bill in 2011 also passed the contested redistricting maps.
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If the Supreme Court affirms their ruling, it could upend the next round of state redistricting, in 2021.
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There's a lot to think about there, but we have time -- any redistricting wouldn't take place until 2022.
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He'll push bipartisan redistricting and fully implement the Affordable Care Act, with a state-based health insurance marketplace.
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The lawsuit, filed by the National Redistricting Foundation, supports plaintiffs in each of North Carolina's 13 congressional districts.
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Kennedy wrote that the lower court did not sufficiently analyze the consideration of race during the redistricting process.
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"Redistricting involves lawmaking in its essential features and most important aspect," the lawmakers wrote, quoting Supreme Court precedent.
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Perez, the five conservative justices reversed a lower court's decision to invalidate a racially gerrymandered Texas redistricting map.
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In 2011, new census figures were due to be released, and this would trigger a round of redistricting.
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Due to North Carolina redistricting, Walker's seat is now heavily Democratic and essentially unwinnable for the conservative Republican.
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Keith Rothfus in Pennsylvania's 17th District in a rare contest featuring two incumbents as a result of redistricting.
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Harris This is one of two racially charged redistricting cases the court has agreed to hear this term.
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He is now running in the First District after redistricting, though it covers much of his old seat.
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Mr. Brunell, a scholar of redistricting, has been an expert witness for Republican defendants in several gerrymandering cases.
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The new group, called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, was developed in close consultation with the White House.
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They used the usual tools of partisan redistricting — like "packing" and "cracking" (here's a glossary) — to their advantage.
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Ryan Costello, who got so upset after the redistricting reshaped his district that he quit the race entirely.
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Rather, it's about preventing lawmakers from redrawing district borders to keep power until the next time redistricting happens.
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" Critics of the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question point to a newly disclosed 2015 study written by the late Dr. Thomas Hofeller, a Republican redistricting expert, who wrote that using "citizen voting age" population as the redistricting population base would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.
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Dallet's campaign drew the support of a number of liberal groups, including the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group led by former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Holder, now the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, is leading the organization to resist Republican-led gerrymandering.
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Third in the NDRC's strategy, Ward says, is the preparation for the nitty-gritty work of the redistricting itself.
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That new measure would take effect in 2021 -- in time for the redistricting process ahead of the 2022 election.
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There will also be ballot initiatives about reforming the state's redistricting process and a tax increase to fund education.
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New York) and b) two cases centered on whether redistricting done for political motives should be legal (Lamone v.
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Gore has a history of defending redistricting and voter ID policies that have adverse affects on people of color.
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States argue that there is no manageable standard and that the Constitution gives them broad authority to regulate redistricting.
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Eric Holder, the former attorney general, kicked off a new initiative called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee on Thursday.
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It will position the party for success in 2020 – after which redistricting decisions will be made nationwide – and beyond.
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And it guides lawmakers in drawing the boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts, a process known as redistricting.
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Tom Wolf is trying to hold on to his seat in what could be pivotal for redistricting in 2020.
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In 2020, Democrats still would have to secure significant wins in red states to have larger control over redistricting.
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Previously, Ohio's once-a-decade redistricting for its congressional seats was controlled by the legislature, with the governor's approval.
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BECKY QUICK: Was it redistrict, I mean, how would you— CHARLIE MUNGER: There's redistrict – redistricting as part of it.
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The swing justice sounds ready, for the first time in the court's history, to impose limits on partisan redistricting.
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As the Cook Report's David Wasserman notes, however, redistricting isn't the prime culprit for the decline of swing seats.
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Whitford, in which the state of Wisconsin will argue that congressional redistricting practices are not subject to judicial oversight.
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Congressional and legislative districts are drawn every 211 years after the U.S. census, which governs redistricting in each state.
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That will shape policy, help the 2020 redistricting, and cultivate a deep bench for future Congressional and presidential elections.
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Obama attended a fundraiser hosted by former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday for Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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Thomas Wolf is counsel on with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, focusing on redistricting issues.
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Republicans have total control of the redistricting process in 21625 states, including Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and North Carolina.
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The NDRC redistricting effort, orchestrated by former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Director Kelly Ward, will play the longer game.
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Tom Wolf (D) created a redistricting reform commission to study ways the state can update its decennial mapping process.
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Since Republicans swept into power through the 85033 Tea Party wave, they've had total control over the redistricting process.
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The goal, advocates say, is to end alleged partisan gerrymandering by state lawmakers, who are currently tasked with redistricting.
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More recently, some have argued that redistricting has created politically lopsided seats that strongly favor one party over another.
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Thousands of letters and emails opposing the redistricting plan, some of them overtly racist, have poured in to policymakers.
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If the redistricting plan moved forward, they said, students might die in car crashes driving to campuses further away.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is set to visit Michigan and Colorado to rally support for redistricting in the coming weeks.
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In 2014, they filed a lawsuit challenging the state's redistricting plan for the Texas Senate after the 2010 census.
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In 2018 alone, voters in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Utah championed reform to their states' unfair redistricting processes.
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The district is currently held by Ellmers, but a redistricting in the state prompted Holding to challenge her seat.
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Farr, who is an attorney in private practice, has represented state Republican leadership in redistricting and voting rights cases.
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In Colorado, 71 percent of voters established a redistricting commission to draw boundaries around its seven U.S. House seats.
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Outside the courts, several states are reforming the mapmaking process to take redistricting out of the majority party's hands.
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Republicans have been relatively confident, in part because their redistricting in 2010 tilted the congressional map in their favor.
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Southern Democrats and rural Republicans coalesced against urban members of both political parties to prevent redistricting until the 2628s.
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If these results hold, that would mean that 12 states will now have independent redistricting commissions, up from eight.
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The new Pennsylvania redistricting map — and similar anti-Trump trend lines — could cost Rs as many as six seats.
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Proposal Two would create an independent redistricting commission, which would take reapportionment out of the hands of the legislature.
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The bottom line is that the Rucho opinion has not ended courts' involvement in redistricting cases — far from it.
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Over all, it admirably adheres to traditional nonpartisan redistricting criteria, like compactness and the avoidance of unnecessary county splits.
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Personhuballah, dealt with the argument around Virginia's 3rd congressional district, redrawn as part of the state's redistricting in 2012.
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Possible redistricting, currently in the hands of the Supreme Court, could shift the demographics of the district even further.
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"The entire public redistricting process in the fall of 2017," Mr. Jones wrote, "appears to have been a charade."
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Rather than following the growing trend of establishing independent nonpartisan redistricting commissions, this plan just reworks a bad setup.
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But while these different systems all have some pros and some cons, they all fundamentally solve the redistricting dilemma.
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All 25 governing bodies in a very red county were asking Pennsylvania's Legislature to pass a fair redistricting law.
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Thirty-six governor's races were on the ballot on Tuesday in elections that could prove critical as redistricting begins.
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The redistricting saw the "collective voting strength" of Democrats diluted, resulting in a map that greatly favored Republican candidates.
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Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts approved a redistricting scheme that included a State Senate district resembling, some thought, a salamander.
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Voter suppression efforts like redistricting, gerrymandering and voter purging (among many other issues) have long since made that clear.
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In the Wisconsin case, the court unanimously rejected the attempt to challenge a statewide redistricting plan as a whole.
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Ms. Dean was the winner in a suburban district in Montgomery County considered a safe Democratic seat after redistricting.
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The ruling was the latest in a six-year dispute stemming from Texas' redistricting process after the 2010 census.
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Over the weekend, he headlined fund-raising events in Boston and New York for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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We must also establish independent redistricting committees to end the practice of gerrymandering and restore the Voting Rights Act.
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If that happens, they say, an emphatic ruling against partisan gerrymanders would rank with another redistricting decision: Baker v.
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Then there is the broader import of the Supreme Court declining to hear the redistricting appeal by Pennsylvania Republicans.
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But it has left open the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship in redistricting may be too extreme.
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Madonna told The Hill that Meehan's district is one of those "ripe" for redistricting changes to benefit the Democrats.
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Having power over the redistricting process after the 2020 census would be especially significant, but so is health care.
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These and the eleven other challengers all complain that they are ineligible to serve on Michigan's independent redistricting commission.
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Ahead of the post-2020 redistricting, Democrats are eager to break GOP trifectas in Florida, Texas, Ohio and Georgia.
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Republicans have been able to keep winning elections (with help from their control of redistricting) despite limited policy successes.
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Republicans have been able to keep winning elections (with help from their control of redistricting) despite limited policy successes.
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They are running for state legislatures in elections that could shift party control and have huge implications for redistricting.
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In 1992, a major post-1990 census redistricting that created many new majority-minority districts contributed to some retirements.
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The Democratic Party is putting a new focus on governors races in key states, with an eye toward redistricting.
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In 34 states, the governor who will be in office for the next redistricting will be elected in November.
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"What we've done is we're killing off the middle," said McGrady, the Republican lawmaker sponsoring a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
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Why it matters: This victory comes as the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), led by former Attorney General Eric Holder, is targeting GOP-controlled state governments in Wisconsin and other key battleground states as part of a broader effort to undercut Republicans' sweeping control of the redistricting process ahead of the 2020 Census.
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Redistricting U, an extension of the All On The Line campaign, will send trainers to provide free training and tools to volunteers about their state redistricting process, gather feedback on ways to improve their communities and teach them how to be leaders in the fair map movement, according to the initiative's website.
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The second plank of the NDRC's strategy, then, is trying to rewrite the rules for redistricting itself in various states.
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Indeed, in 34 states, the governor who will be in office for the next redistricting will be elected in 2018.
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But he did, and they worked with African-American legislators in states like North Carolina on the process of redistricting.
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Redistricting has become a bigger issue in states where court challenges have forced changes in maps drawn by political partisans.
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Take a look at the results of the rigged system of redistricting that drove the two cases the justices considered.
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The chief justice expressed faith in the fact that redistricting reforms are going forward on a state-by-state basis.
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The forced redistricting suggests that Navajos had not already been equal citizens within the county — a belief Lyman cannot abide.
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Issue 21, or the Congressional Redistricting Procedures Amendment, will be up for a statewide vote, and its prospects look good.
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"The next decade is really on the line here," said Patrick Rodenbush, communications director for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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California's races are also unusual because, in 2011, a new redistricting body redrew some boundaries to make them more competitive.
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The Justice Department was before the US Supreme Court last week on a gerrymandering case involving redistricting efforts in Texas.
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It is the main litigation tool available for attacking electoral systems and redistricting plans that dilute minority voting strength, i.e.
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I'm going to make sure that we're going to have a fair census in 2020 and fair redistricting in 2021.
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The recent redistricting throughout the state has evened the map, putting historically Republican congressional districts into play for the Democrats.
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Ms Fahy builds Voters Not Politicians, an all-volunteer organisation to get a redistricting-reform amendment on the 2018 ballot.
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"We can't sustainably flip anything unless we control redistricting," said Jessica Alter, the founder and leader of Tech for Campaigns.
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Republicans in Tennessee also voiced support for citizens-only redistricting in court papers filed in the Evenwel Supreme Court case.
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Republicans, who control most state legislatures, like the current system of redistricting because it allows them to draw the lines.
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There were many ways to draw maps following all the redistricting rules that did not lead to unfairness, they showed.
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So when the once-a-decade redistricting process kicked off the following year, the GOP was in a powerful position.
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The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania filed the lawsuit challenging a 2011 redistricting by the Republican-led Pennsylvania legislature.
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But the U.S. Supreme Court told the lower court last March that the redistricting must be reexamined for racial bias.
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The federal government should end this distorting practice by requiring state legislatures to cede their redistricting power to independent commissions.
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At the beginning of a redistricting cycle local lawmakers drew a State Assembly map that helped Republicans secure legislative majorities.
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That's why conservatives claim the court's ruling on Monday will only create more confusion for legislators navigating vague redistricting rules.
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Consider North Carolina, where Republicans won control of the state legislature in 2010 — and total control of the redistricting process.
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The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up a case involving partisan redistricting in the state of Wisconsin.
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The Supreme Court has never said redistricting cannot be based on nakedly partisan aims like maximizing one party's election chances.
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The Supreme Court in December heard arguments in another redistricting case from North Carolina concerning U.S. House of Representatives districts.
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The final verdicts on which party controls redistricting will come during legislative and gubernatorial elections in 2628, 28503 and 22019.
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The partisan redistricting processes around the country, which jammed us into congressional seats prioritized by political party played a role.
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Republican voters in Michigan and Republican legislators in Virginia have moved toward non-partisan redistricting commissions which are positive steps.
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Ward argued at the breakfast that interest in redistricting has grown since 2011, the last time congressional maps were redrawn.
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"Without the redistricting firewall that they built, Republicans would probably lose 60 seats in this kind of cycle," Israel said.
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And with the court's newest member, they are hopeful that the Supreme Court will rule that partisan redistricting is constitutional.
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The Colorado initiative will create a 12-member independent redistricting commission instead of having the state legislature draw district maps.
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The Democrats increased the number of governors and state legislative bodies under their control, which is crucial for 2020 redistricting.
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This case revolves around redistricting -- specifically, district lines in Wisconsin that challengers contend the Republicans unconstitutionally drew to favor themselves.
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Similarly, some point to partisan redistricting after the 2010 census as the main reason Republicans retained the House in 2012.
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The decennial redistricting process has been a combative political sport since the early days of the republic, when Massachusetts Gov.
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Pennsylvania Chief Justice Tom Saylor dissented in the redistricting case—he was in the minority who disagreed with the ruling.
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Holding currently represents another North Carolina district but decided to challenge Ellmers after a court-ordered redistricting in the state.
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I think Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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But in 2012, redistricting transformed the district into a safe GOP seat, and Mulvaney has easily won reelection since then.
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"I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats," one of the redistricting commission's GOP chairs said at the time.
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Her home is now one-tenth of a mile out of California's 43rd District, which she represents, due to redistricting.
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Pittenger was more vulnerable to a primary challenge this year after redistricting in his state changed his Charlotte-area district.
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"The redistricting has changed the landscape," said Daniel A. Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Florida.
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The court filings claim that late GOP redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller played a substantial role in adding the citizenship question.
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Redistricting reform alone will not solve all the problems we face, nor will two state governors reaching across the aisle.
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The justices, however, have long wrestled with how to measure when partisanship in the redistricting process has gone too far.
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In 2012, after redistricting in Ohio made Sutton's district more GOP-leaning, Renacci defeated her by a few points. Rep.
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Utah is one of a handful of states where voters will decide whether to overhaul the redistricting process in November.
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Granted, some are more competitive than others, given the state's recent redistricting that makes Pennsylvania's electoral map fairer for Democrats.
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Why it matters: The rulings comes amidst redistricting battles in key states over voting maps drawn after the 2010 census.
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During the Obama administration, Republicans mounted a major, state-by-state effort that gave the party overwhelming control of redistricting.
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During the last round of redistricting, in 2011, North Carolina Republicans adopted a new map that heavily favored the GOP.
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States' redistricting processes vary somewhat, and Justin Levitt of Loyola Law School has a good breakdown of how they work.
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Should Democrats fare poorly in the redistricting fights set to unfold after the 254 census, they will remain that way.
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At least 33 states leave congressional or state legislative redistricting process in the hands of governors or state legislative bodies.
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Perhaps Democrats still would have won the House without redistricting efforts and with a more typical number of Republican retirements.
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For instance, H.R. 1, which the House approved this month, contains a provision requiring states to create independent redistricting commissions.
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The court has, however, left open the possibility that some kinds of political gamesmanship in redistricting may be too extreme.
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Six other states already have independent redistricting bodies; citizen support for new commissions appears in some states to be strong.
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Mr. Holder's group, the National Redistricting Foundation, is expected to file suit in Federal District Court in Atlanta on Tuesday.
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Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, formed the National Democratic Redistricting Committee to help finance legal challenges to the Republican-drawn maps.
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The 2018 results gave proponents of changing redistricting systems reason to think that voters are willing to hear them out.
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Pennsylvania and Louisiana have seen the beginnings of bipartisan legislative efforts this year to hand over redistricting to apolitical commissions.
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And that's a vote in favor of independent redistricting commissions, which have already been adopted by roughly a dozen states.
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This week, he joined Justice Clarence Thomas in questioning whether the Voting Rights Act applies to electoral redistricting at all.
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According to NDRC statistics, in 2011 Republican had total control over redistricting in 19 states that contain 213 congressional seats.
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The most urgent matter is a pending emergency application to halt a court-ordered redo of redistricting in North Carolina.
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In contrast, because of clearer constitutional concerns, the court has weighed in repeatedly on the problem of race-based redistricting.
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Any losses would come at the worst time: Just ahead of the redistricting process that begins with the 2020 census.
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The National Redistricting Reform Act will end partisan gerrymandering by requiring states to use independent commissions to draw district lines.
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At stake, in fact, are billions of dollars in taxpayer money, electoral redistricting, and the very identity of the country.
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Along with nonpartisan redistricting, it's time to take this practical change and bring it to Congress and other state capitals.
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Will the district court in Michigan find a similarly clear justification behind the eligibility rules for the nascent redistricting commission?
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Similarly, excluding political insiders from serving on Michigan's redistricting commission helps the commission do its work assuring cross-partisan cooperation.
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The GOP suffered a string of defeats in November that will certainly cost them legislative and congressional seats in redistricting.
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The redistricting fight, Mr. Murphy said, is part of what is motivating him to push for the new voting reforms.
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Personhuballah, a challenge to Virginia's redistricting plan in 2012 that increased the share of black voters in one congressional district.
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In the North Carolina case, Republican legislative leaders behind the redistricting decision are challenging a lower court's decision that the state's map violated "the Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment, and (uniquely in the history of redistricting litigation) the Elections Clauses of Article I." A decision in the cases would be expected by late June.
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But the judge rejected those arguments, ruling in favor of voters from both districts and the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, a group led by former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts GOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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There were 12 redistricting amendments filed in both chambers during the current legislative session though none won approval in both chambers.
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The last time this batch of governor and state legislature seats went up before a redistricting, in 2010, Republicans dominated them.
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One reason is that in Canada, there was a long tradition of the national parliament being involved in the redistricting process.
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A case over the racial implications of their most recent redistricting map is currently being heard by the US Supreme Court.
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Redistricting reform advocates got a major boost when they learned that the Supreme Court would hear the case of Gill v.
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Hofeller, a GOP political strategist, was regarded as an expert in the art of redistricting, particularly to benefit the Republican Party.
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Redistricting is a major issue in many states, and this case isn't the only one the nation's highest court has heard.
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It leaves redistricting in the hands of politicians, rather than handing it over to an independent commission, as some reformers preferred.
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And on Election Day, wide majorities of voters in states across the country approved independent redistricting commissions and automatic voter registration.
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If the groups succeed, Democrats will own both state chambers and the governor's mansion, which will come in handy during redistricting.
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Nearly 20213 of the state legislators who will decide on redistricting after the 22021 census will be elected on November 22016th.
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In a section discussing enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the new version removes previous references to redistricting and racial gerrymandering.
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Since 2010, Republicans' control of redistricting has coincided with major seat advantages for them in state legislatures, the Brennan Center said.
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Go deeper: These midterm victories will expand voting rights, curb gerrymandering What the midterm election results mean for 2020's redistricting
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The state's recent redistricting left candidates playing the equivalent of musical congressional chairs with districts, with several incumbents choosing to retire.
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We can do data modeling that helps them understand redistricting, for example, while they meanwhile know a lot that we don't.
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Citizen-only redistricting would make it more likely that anti-immigration Republicans would win elections in the border region, Hinojosa said.
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But where Gill concerns a Republican redistricting plan, Benisek involves a challenge to a congressional district in Maryland drawn by Democrats.
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State legislatures controlled by Republicans today ensure their continued dominance through redistricting and voting rules just as Democrats did during redemption.
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Demographers believe an undercount could reduce the political power of heavily Democratic states with large immigrant communities during redistricting in 2021.
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IN 2010 Republicans won majorities in both houses of Pennsylvania's legislature, which gave them control of the state's decennial redistricting process.
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Former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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The true implication of the 2017 elections is what they mean for redistricting and electoral reforms in the years to come.
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In fact, four congressmen wrote Roberts last month asking him to provide live audio for the redistricting case to no avail.
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Tiberi has regularly defeated his Democratic opponents with twice their votes since redistricting in 2011 shifted the lines in his favor.
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But emails revealed by The Detroit News recently suggest that some Republicans sought to give their party an advantage in redistricting.
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Levitt said many of the state races this year will determine which party controls the redistricting process following the 2020 census.
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Ah, yes, the Golden State, home of the fully independent citizens redistricting commission that is the beau ideal of many reformers.
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David Thornburgh is president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy and served as chair of the PA Redistricting Reform Commission.
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This year, the prospect of the 2021 redistricting after the next census was a quiet but powerful issue for both parties.
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Partisan redistricting (also known as gerrymandering) is routinely decried by both sides of the aisle and is undergoing some isolated reconsideration.
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Ex-Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Redistricting gave them an insurance policy for a number of elections, and they are exercising as much power as they can.
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Jean Lloyd-Jones was president of the Iowa League of Women Voters in 1972 when the organization challenged Iowa's redistricting map.
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According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, this hybrid of state officials and a commission to determine redistricting would be a national first.
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And where this is the simple result of geography, even the best-intentioned nonpartisan redistricting commission will fail to cure it.
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The one-two punch of fair districts drawn by independent redistricting commissions, plus open primaries, makes elections fairer and more competitive.
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Because they are bankrupt on good policy, the first listed priority of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) is to litigate.
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Hofeller was a top redistricting strategist before his death last year, helping Republican legislatures draw district maps in several key states.
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Paul Ryan, then retiring as House speaker, echoed Trump's conspiratorial language, blaming court-ordered redistricting in Pennsylvania and California's voting procedures.
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Progressive policy groups are counseling legislators on how to make the redistricting process in their states more transparent ahead of 2020.
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Brown, who was indicted last month and whose district was redrawn after court-ordered redistricting, was defeated by former state Sen.
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Candidates who win election next year will begin another round, this one over regularly scheduled redistricting that follows the 2020 census.
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Abbott, a case challenging the 2013 redistricting of 31 seats in the Texas Senate based solely on 2010 census population figures.
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The fundraiser marks Obama's second political event since leaving office, the first being in July for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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His margin of victory has never fallen below double-digits since redistricting created the 85033nd district ahead of the 2002 election.
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After the Bush administration, Hofeller again oversaw the RNC's redistricting operations, though as a paid consultant rather than as a staffer.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE to push for redistricting reform, saying he wants to "terminate" gerrymandering.
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This year, Democrats have announced a campaign to "flip everything," citing the importance of retaking state legislatures in advance of redistricting.
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In 2013, the legislature decided to keep using those temporary maps until a new round of redistricting after the 2020 census.
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The party in power will control the next round of redistricting for both U.S. congressional and state legislative maps in 2021.
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Perez also praised Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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These bills and redistricting plans are often advanced by Republican state legislatures in the name of cracking down on voter fraud.
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To create a "Computational Method for Identifying Extreme Redistricting Plans," as she put it in the subtitle of one research paper.
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The court heard argument in the case in April, a month before the new information surfaced in an unrelated redistricting case.
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By putting their plan before the electorate, supporters argue, New Jersey Democrats are letting voters decide how redistricting should be done.
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But since no Republican supports the redistricting plan, it seems unlikely that it would ever succeed in either chamber in Trenton.
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Democrats have scheduled a vote on the redistricting plan for Monday, the final day the legislature is to meet this year.
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The census count will determine which states gain or lose seats in the House of Representatives when redistricting begins in 2021.
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The superintendent estimated that he devoted 70 to 80 percent of his working time over several months to the redistricting process.
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Attorneys for the voters had wanted maps drawn within two weeks - in line with what state courts order in redistricting matters.
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While the state senate districts were not affected, the redistricting is expected to give the Democratic party momentum in the election.
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""You're still looking at the likelihood of marginal losses, partially due to redistricting … but we're not seeing anything that looks cataclysmic.
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The Legislature, which is in charge of redistricting, does not have to take into account the maps created by the commission.
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When redistricting happened in the state at the beginning of the last decade, Republicans controlled both the state House and Senate.
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So the population grows very rapidly by world-historical standards, which means that the apportionment and redistricting functions are very disruptive.
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Then-Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderGOP governor vetoes New Hampshire bill to create independent redistricting commission Why target Tucker Carlson?
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Justice Kagan said black voters, in coalitions with others, had been able to elect their preferred candidates even before the redistricting.
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Conor Lamb, who won a special election to the 18th district seat earlier this year, as a result of statewide redistricting.
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She also analyzes how redistricting has upended political maps such as Wisconsin's, a purple state with a reliably Republican-controlled legislature.
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Allowing cases like Gill to proceed will serve only ''to increase the federal judiciary's already outsized role in the redistricting process.
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Some redistricting maps from this decade scored high for bias one year and then looked much better after a second election.
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The Supreme Court's conservative wing will probably argue that judges should stay out of redistricting, just as it did in Vieth.
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Former President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., are spearheading an initiative to undo Republicans' redistricting triumphs.
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After redistricting, Kenosha became a safe Democratic district, and Mr. Steinbrink was exiled to an adjoining district populated by rural conservatives.
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Stephanie Hofeller, the daughter of redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller, started uploading the documents Sunday onto a website titled The Hofeller Files.
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These three states, along with Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Florida, all share one feature: one-party control of the redistricting process.
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Holder currently runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization he created that encourages pro-Democratic re-drawings of congressional districts.
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H.R. 1 addresses everything from redistricting and money in politics to voting reforms, such as making Election Day a national holiday.
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And Castro has campaigned with numerous members of the Texas House, which could be the most important redistricting play in 2020.
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Atwater decided Republicans needed to "do something about redistricting," and he assigned this task to the R.N.C.'s counsel, Ben Ginsberg.
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But Ginsberg argued that when it came to redistricting—or, from another perspective, gerrymandering—the two groups shared a common interest.
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He's set to appear Thursday at a closed-door event for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NRDC), The Washington Post reported.
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That pattern is likely to continue as the Supreme Court revisits election rules and redistricting, as well as university affirmative action.
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Jubelirer if a "limited and precise" standard could be found to determine whether an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander had occurred in redistricting.
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The tide is turning — in Ohio, Colorado, Michigan and Missouri, statewide races are competitive because voters there approved independent redistricting commissions.
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That's going to give them a bigger voice in 2020 redistricting and, of course, in the important work of state policymaking.
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In short, there is simply no conflict between preventing outrageous partisan abuses during redistricting and ensuring fair treatment for minority communities.
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The "redistricting" in most states is done by the party in power though some states assign the task to independent commissions.
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While relatively low-profile, the redistricting fundraiser won't look like the former president is launching a direct attack against Donald Trump.
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The four liberals want the courts to take a more active role at protecting racial minorities' representation in the redistricting process.
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So if Democrats want a chance to weigh in on 2021 redistricting, they need to make significant electoral gains this year.
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The legal challenges, which are supported by Holder's National Redistricting Foundation, an affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee — a political action committee chaired by Holder — claim the new majority-minority districts are needed because each state's current electoral maps violate the federal Voting Rights Act by depriving black voters of the ability to elect representatives of their choice.
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A host of Democrats said that the former president has signaled to top lawmakers and operatives that he will be stepping up his involvement in the midterms soon and is telling friends and advisers that his priorities are flipping the House and backing up redistricting efforts led by former Attorney General Eric Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
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There are a few redistricting ballot initiatives up for a vote this November, but by far the most nationally important is Michigan.
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The Court's five-justice majority upheld the independent redistricting body, but only with the vote of Justice Kennedy, who has since retired.
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In the majority of states, redistricting is done by state legislatures, meaning whichever party is in charge gets to draw the lines.
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And in 30 states, half or more of state senators whose terms extend through the next redistricting will be elected in 2018.
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But the 2010 off-year election was a landslide for Republicans, giving them complete control of redistricting in almost half the states.
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If the GOP retains this advantage as we move into the 2020 redistricting cycle, the Democrats will be at a severe disadvantage.
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"There are no truly nonpartisan redistricting commissions in the United States," political scientist Bruce Cain of Stanford University told me in 2014.
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He said the focus on redistricting is part of the party's broader need to turn its eyes from Washington to the states.
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While there, he kept the door open to a White House run, but tried to focus his remarks on his redistricting mission.
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The latest: Texas, where a panel of federal judges ruled on Friday that the state's redistricting plan illegally discriminated against minority voters.
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He'll invest more of his time in the new redistricting effort run by President Barack Obama and former attorney general Eric Holder.
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Republicans, who have the advantage right now in state legislatures, sat on their hands during the president's redistricting comments while Democrats cheered.
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In Michigan, they're working to protect their gerrymandered majority by kneecapping an independent redistricting commission passed by popular referendum just last month.
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In 210, Idaho went through legislative redistricting, cutting off a swath of Jordan's home district where conservative candidates had dominated legislative races.
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The Texas redistricting cases are appeals from a 107-page ruling of a three-judge district court panel from this past August.
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Dave Wasserman, the Cook Political Report writer who likes redistricting so much he made it his Twitter handle, offered a bold challenge.
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And in 30 states, half or more of state senators whose terms extend through the next redistricting will be elected this year.
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The House and Senate are responsible for drawing up redistricting maps after the 2020 Census, and the governor will sign or veto.
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This all comes before the process of redistricting even starts in 2021, which itself is fraught with political gamesmanship in many places.
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What could have been a coalition to rein in partisan redistricting became unanimous decisions to put off the matter for another day.
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"We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts," Roberts wrote in the redistricting case.
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But it would be an extraordinary reinterpretation of the elections clause to read it as precluding state judicial oversight of legislative redistricting.
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Non-partisan redistricting in all 50 states designed to draw compact and sensible districts with no concern for incumbents' wishes and wants.
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Call it the Lake Wobegon test: The redistricting party has ensured that a majority of its districts perform above the statewide average.
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Why it matters: Texas does not have to start redistricting, which means current maps are likely to be used in 2018 elections.
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That's why, this January, we launched the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) in order to draw district lines in a fair manner.
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It's a big claim — bigger than most of the court's election-related cases — and one that would reshape the redistricting process nationwide.
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He's set to collaborate with former Attorney General Eric Holder on redistricting—a key priority for progressive electoral success in the future.
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And that in turn means that with enough demographic change and redistricting, single-payer healthcare might actually become a reality by 2030.
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Second, a three-judge federal district court panel issued a series of rulings holding that Texas' redistricting plans were unlawful racial gerrymanders.
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Redistricting reform is likely to become a focus in states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Maryland when their legislatures convene this year.
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This decision encourages other states to use the next round of redistricting in 2020 to further shortchange African-American and Hispanic voters.
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Fixing this redistricting problem will involve not just focusing on the lines, but focusing on the larger effort to win back governance.
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But broadly speaking, it's what Republicans, who largely controlled the redistricting process after the 2010 census, did in districts across the country.
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But redistricting in the state changed the current map, pitting both incumbents against one another in a new 85033th District in November.
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Already, justices responded to an emergency request earlier this month in a case concerning redistricting in Texas with a 5-4 order.
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