State legislators use it to redraw their own legislative maps.
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Crucially, state legislatures will redraw US congressional district boundaries in 2021.
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The court ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines by Oct. 85033.
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Lawmakers should redraw school district boundaries to include more diverse populations.
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I won't go back, I won't redraw the lines of division.
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Most important, though, she helped redraw the contours of American politics.
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Pricey Harrison (D), who helped redraw the legislative district boundaries last month.
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The court required Texas to redraw them ahead of the 2018 election.
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That is: they'll be the people who will redraw the lines in 2021.
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Marvel's continuous narrative depends on artists to continually rewrite, redraw, and recreate history.
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Mr Trump has for months claimed that he would redraw the electoral map.
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Local governments must also redraw their local lines, such as for city council.
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They ordered the legislature to redraw lines defining districts held by Texas Reps.
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If they failed to meet that deadline, the court would redraw the map.
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"This could be an opportunity to redraw its strategic neighborhood," said Eurasia's Castro Neves.
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China's recent actions further undermine its professions of altruism and redraw the strategic map.
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He can sideline parliament, redraw the electoral map and bar serious opponents from politics.
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Recently, Dr. Banfield and her colleagues decided it was time to redraw the tree.
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"There were trying moments," McAdoo said of the decision to redraw his life plan.
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States use census data to redraw local and federal legislative districts every ten years.
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The justices affirmed lower court rulings telling North Carolina to redraw its maps fairly.
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So if we redraw the picture at the top, it would look like this.
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Every 10 years, states redraw their electoral districts for Congress and the state legislature.
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He has in the past testified regarding moves by Republicans to redraw congressional districts.
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The judges ordered state lawmakers to redraw maps in time for elections in 2000.
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The judges ordered state lawmakers to redraw maps in time for elections in 2020.
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That meant Republicans got the electoral advantage to redraw the maps, and they took it.
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The company called its emoji designers again and asked them to redraw the peach emoji.
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The president wants to redraw the relationship between France's Muslims and the secular French state.
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And if she does redraw them, that would destroy the fragile consensus within her party.
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States redraw their legislative maps every ten years to keep up with the decennial census.
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Others are just desperate to redraw the everyday realities of people right here on Earth.
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The court told state lawmakers to redraw the state's 18 House districts, which favored Republicans.
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The map reflects a broad plan to redraw the ethno-religious boundaries of northern Rakhine.
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Levitt: Well, the court said that they would have to redraw districts for 2018, yes.
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Even before the final ruling, though, the legislature voted to redraw districts held by Reps.
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Donald Trump's popularity is sinking, but his presidency continues to redraw the map of American politics.
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The best way out of the mess would be to redraw the red line on customs.
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Census numbers are used to redraw House districts and divvy up federal funding among the states.
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Ralph Northam (D) called last week to redraw districts at the request of a federal court.
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To understand this urge to redraw the map you need to look at modern imperial history.
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Still, the thaw, if it persists, could redraw the political map at the center of Asia.
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And, several groups warned, a future Democratic administration could again redraw the boundaries of allowable drilling.
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Martin O'Malley led the charge to redraw the lines to unseat long-time GOP incumbent Rep.
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"The suburban Philadelphia districts are more at risk, but I assume they'll redraw everyone," Harris said.
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Now the same court could force the state to redraw the state's congressional districts as well.
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But the court now says there's not enough time to redraw the maps before the midterms.
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The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the lower court's order to redraw the map nine days later.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles are now forcing GM to redraw plans.
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By the year 2100, swollen seas and rivers will redraw shorelines as climbing temperatures melt ice caps.
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Judges, likewise, have refused to interfere, saying the constitution gives parliament the right to redraw the maps.
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The "border adjustment" tax could also redraw trade maps for global flows of crude and refined products.
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He was critical of how Republicans worked to redraw electoral districts in 2011 following the 2010 census.
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The court gave the General Assembly an opportunity to redraw the map, but lawmakers failed to act.
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It will embolden state lawmakers to redraw legislative maps for maximal partisan gain after next year's census.
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Following that redraw, Tiberi won with 218%, 26% and 67% in his last three re-election races.
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I then redraw it by hand so the glitching process has actually transitioned from handmade to digital.
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But it is also a concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.
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In the city of Kazeroun, two people were killed in clashes over plans to redraw its borders.
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Every 10 years, after the national census, the country's states redraw the boundaries of their electoral districts.
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Although the GOP's lawyers also argued they needed until this November to redraw maps, the judges disagreed.
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A movement to redraw the lines between speech and violence is taking shape on the right, too.
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The census figures are used to redraw House districts and divvy up federal funding among the states.
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The Census count is used to redraw congressional districts, so it can affect the makeup of Congress.
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Martin O'Malley led the charge to redraw the lines to unseat long-time GOP incumbent Roscoe Bartlett.
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The court ordered the Republican state legislature to redraw the map in advance of the May primary.
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In Virginia, Democrats are already better positioned than the last redraw, when a Republican held the governorship.
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First, the census count serves as the basis for states to redraw their district lines every decade.
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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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The Supreme Court did, however, temporarily block a similar order in North Carolina to redraw its congressional map.
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On January 260th federal judges in North Carolina gave the state two weeks to redraw its congressional map.
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States will use the results to redraw congressional districts, a process that was dominated by Republicans in 2010.
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The move could radically redraw the country's political and economic landscape and exacerbate deep divisions among the electorate.
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The Post reported that lawmakers on Thursday didn't come close to agreeing on how to redraw the map.
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After the redraw and the election, the House delegation will be split evenly — nine seats for each party.
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Dr. Ríos and her colleagues used information from the new fossil find to redraw the giraffid family tree.
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But states must redraw their legislative maps every 10 years, shortly after the completion of the decennial census.
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Under the GOP's redraw, Holding's district now includes more of Wake County, taking in the city of Raleigh.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles are now forcing GM to redraw revise its plans.
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Sagging sales and a regulatory crackdown on diesel-powered vehicles had forced GM to redraw its plans in India.
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Real-life state legislatures are, of course, allowed to redraw or break up voting precincts if they want to.
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In some of the most important swing states, Republicans were able to redraw the congressional maps without Democrats' input.
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What's next: San Antonio has three days to determine if and when lawmakers will redraw the congressional map districts.
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Trump has vowed to redraw terms of trade with Mexico and Canada to the benefit of the United States.
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Once the sea has washed it away, how do you know where to redraw a line in the sand?
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Bottom line: Did the Democrats gain enough power Tuesday night to redraw the American political map in their favor?
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It will also redraw the map of one of Europe's biggest cities, turning its western side into an island.
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And after the Virginia legislature couldn't agree on how to redraw the district, the court did it for them.
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That was certainly true in the geopolitical realm, as negotiators convened in Paris, eager to redraw the world map.
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Former President Obama is praising a North Carolina court's decision to redraw the state's legislative districts over partisan gerrymandering.
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The state won't have to quickly redraw its congressional districts, as ordered earlier this month by a federal court.
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But the company is not alone in apparently complying with Russian demands to redraw the map of the region.
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But even if a decision comes this summer, a court-ordered redraw likely wouldn't happen before the 2018 elections.
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It has its own interests there -- part of a strategy to redraw the balance of power in the Middle East.
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The ruling also allows the state's general assembly to redraw the map for the upcoming election in an "expeditious" fashion.
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Republicans elected then to redraw the maps, which were approved by the same court on Monday in a separate order.
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An article on Wednesday about a decision to redraw two school zones in Brooklyn misstated the timing of the vote.
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In 2010, after Republicans took over several statehouses, Hofeller helped redraw several statehouse maps, including the maps in North Carolina.
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The 2020 Census will redraw the electoral map and guide billions of dollars in federal spending for the next decade.
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Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force.
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The 2020 elections will determine who controls state legislatures, which will in turn have the power to redraw congressional maps.
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The motion to redraw electoral boundaries will likely be approved by parliament, as it only requires a simple majority vote.
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It would start to re-envision and redraw the American cultural map in a way that New York hasn't yet.
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Should Democrats capture several of those governorships, it could help them redraw congressional district lines to their advantage after 2020.
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And that could make legislators less likely to redraw legislative maps in the aggressive way they have been for decades.
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It would be an occasion to redraw the boundary of the community and thereby include those who have been marginalized.
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Mr. Eggert said that opera companies should redraw their programs so that half of all the works presented are new.
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At the end of his book he tries to redraw a boundary that moves us a little closer to sanity.
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Second, the Democrats caught a fairly big break when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to redraw the state's congressional maps.
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And in January, the Supreme Court told state officials in North Carolina they don't have to redraw their map yet.
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American leaders — especially the last two — tolerated the expansionism of Moscow and Beijing, allowing them to redraw borders by force.
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Furthermore, a federal court recently ordered North Carolina to redraw its racially gerrymandered legislative districts and hold new elections in 2017.
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If one political party tries to redraw the map, citizens can quickly check themselves whether the changes would equate to gerrymandering.
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The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union will force the country to redraw some 43-year old trade negotiations.
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As the pair discover new desires and temptations, they redraw the boundaries of their identities and navigate intimacy as new adults.
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The party could redraw the state's US House of Representatives districts however it liked, cutting Democrats out of the process entirely.
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But the defense secretary also appeared to subtly redraw the red line that the President established in his remarks on Tuesday.
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Census data is used to apportion congressional seats, redraw lines for legislative districts and allocate billions of dollars of federal assistance.
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Previous chancellors of the exchequer have used such moments to redraw the fiscal contours of the country in bold new colours.
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The complex seven-year legal battle focuses on how states use race to redraw their legislative maps after the decennial census.
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Here's why: The party that controls state legislatures after Election Day in 2020 will redraw congressional districts for the next decade.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday told state officials in North Carolina they don't have to redraw their congressional districts just yet.
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But the ways in which their priorities converge do have the potential to redraw the boundaries of America's two political parties.
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While his government did amend the Constitution, it refused one of the key Madhesi demands: to redraw the country's federal provinces.
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In practice, Republican-controlled houses with supermajorities could redraw voting maps to hurt Democrats, without fear of a Democratic governor's veto.
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The Supreme Court put two rulings on hold late Tuesday that directed Texas officials to redraw congressional and state legislative districts.
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Gerrymandering North Carolina must redraw its congressional map in just three weeks, because federal judges say the map is unconstitutionally partisan.
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With its newfound majority, the Republicans had the power to redraw congressional and state legislative districts to maximize their own advantage.
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That group's leader, Laurent Berger, has pushed for a more flexible approach as the forces of globalization redraw the competitive landscape.
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The results of the census will also be used to redraw voting districts, redistribute congressional seats and portion Electoral College votes.
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Mr. Trump's actions, he testified, undercut American allies desperately fighting off Russia's attempt to redraw the boundaries of Europe through force.
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This should be the plan's big ambition: Instead of seeking to end the battle, it should fundamentally redraw the battle lines.
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If the court does side with the state, the next opportunity to redraw districts won't come until after the 2020 census.
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Accordingly, states must redraw their districts every 10 years to account for the new population data provided by the decennial census.
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The Republican-controlled state legislature would probably be able to contain the damage if it got to redraw the map itself.
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It floated the possibility of having the state redraw new maps ahead of November or having a third party do so.
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Now I am writing in the hopes that my colleagues will recognize that they could, and still can, redraw the line.
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After an electoral surge in 20043, Republicans used their new-found control of state legislatures and governor's mansions to redraw district boundaries.
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The two political gerrymandering cases are being looked to as potentially precedent-setting for the coming decennial redraw of the nation's lines.
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This study could signal how we think long-term about British wine production and redraw the future wine map of the world.
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Last year, the judge ordered the county to redraw the districts and put all of their seats up for grabs this November.
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Earlier this week a senior UN official warned that the government was engaging in "population engineering" to redraw the country's ethnic map.
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The opposition alliance is concerned, in particular, about plans to redraw the boundaries of more than half of Malaysia's 222 parliamentary constituencies.
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While courts have forced some states to redraw districts put into place after 2010, many of them remain in place for 2018.
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"Another method for the GIFs is to redraw my line work for each frame to bring the lines to life," he explains.
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Nationalists in the north have already said that, post-Brexit, they would demand a referendum to redraw the border with the south.
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Because of a parliamentary stand-off between Mr McAuliffe and the legislature, Republicans were denied a chance to redraw the offending district.
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Sims that the rule also applies to state legislative districts, forcing state lawmakers to redraw maps that had long favored rural interests.
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"We did not voluntarily accept the borders of our country," Mr. Erdogan has said, suggesting that he might wish to redraw them.
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The 2-1 ruling also came with an order for lawmakers to redraw lines for the state's House districts by Oct. 30.
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North Carolina is going ahead with November elections under its current gerrymandered map because there isn't enough time to redraw new districts.
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He also threatened to redraw trade deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would be a blow to Japan's export-dependent economy.
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Common Cause , the justices ruled 66-4 that federal courts don't have the power to decide whether politicians inappropriately redraw district lines.
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Common Cause , the justices ruled 5-4 that federal courts don't have the power to decide whether politicians inappropriately redraw district lines.
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While states will always retain experts to redraw legislative maps, fair, objective and prioritized rules can help limit partisan and racial gerrymandering.
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In the second case, the court unanimously ruled against the Republican challengers to a Democratic plan to redraw a Maryland congressional district.
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Texas did not say outright that it wanted to use eligible voters to redraw legislative maps after the 2020 Census, of course.
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But if Kosovo and Serbia redraw their borders on ethnic lines, that would be a big and possibly destabilising change for the region.
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People have suggested that maybe the Federal Power Act needs to be updated to address some of these concerns, to redraw the line.
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The courts have gone so far as to appoint a Stanford law professor to evaluate the districts, and even redraw them if necessary.
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The state was ordered in 2016 to redraw its congressional map after some of the districts were found to constitute a racial gerrymander.
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But for Chuck and Bobby, the erosion of principles does not mean the absence of principles — they just simply redraw the ethical lines.
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In lieu of a run, Holder emphasized that he'll be laser-focused on redistricting as states begin to redraw district maps in 2021.
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KIEV, Ukraine — In 2014, for the first time in seven decades, a state sought to redraw Europe's map by way of military aggression.
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A federal judge in 2017 ordered the county to redraw boundaries to give Navajos a majority in two of three county commission districts.
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Tony Evers (D) rolled out a proposal Wednesday that would create a nonpartisan committee of residents to redraw the Badger State's electoral map.
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His rise marks a leftist resurgence that could redraw Latin America's geopolitical map and create new tensions in U.S relations with the region.
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Maybe. In recent months, people in Silicon Valley have begun to redraw the boundaries—or at least acknowledge the absurdity of the norm.
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The court said it will redraw the maps itself if Ohio fails to come up with a solution that the judges deem fair.
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The Court could outlaw partisan gerrymandering — in which political parties can redraw district maps to give themselves an electoral boost in future elections.
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So partisan gerrymandering is a common phenomenon that tips the scales in favor of whichever party is in power to redraw voting maps.
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Throughout the campaign that led to his upset election win, the Republican president-elect pledged to redraw trade deals to win back American jobs.
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Parliament approved a plan last week to redraw electoral boundaries, a move that the opposition and critics say will help Najib's coalition retain power.
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These were the states that mattered most for redistricting — and Republicans could now redraw maps there while cutting Democrats out of the process entirely.
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Under the U.S. Constitution, once a decade states must redraw their legislative lines for Congress, state legislatures, and even local governments like city councils.
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"Despite Russia's denials, we know they are seeking to redraw international borders by force, undermining the sovereign and free nations of Europe," Mattis said.
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Only then can Mr. Art of the Deal redraw agreements and assert the American hard power that saw it become the world's unipolar power.
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The outcome could have major political ramifications since the data is used to redraw House districts and determine how many seats each state receives.
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The latest: The U.S. Supreme Court in January issued a temporary hold on ordering the state legislature to redraw its excessively partisan congressional map.
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Plus, the politicians elected this fall will be in place in 2021, when states redraw their congressional maps following the 2020 decennial U.S. census.
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Two other Republicans are likely to be replaced by Democrats after a state court ordered the GOP-led legislature to redraw district boundary lines.
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"Despite Russia's denials, we know they are seeking to redraw international borders by force, undermining the sovereign and free nations of Europe," he said.
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The tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, topping out at 1,396 feet, this Rafael Viñoly-designed building has helped redraw the city's skyline.
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I had to constantly erase and redraw whatever outer boundary I'd placed on gentrification's eastward march, until I realized there might never be one.
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Randy Forbes' seat is set to become heavily Democratic after a district court-ordered redraw of the map, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.
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Cillizza: The next step, politically, is for the Republican state legislature to redraw the map -- and then send to the Democratic governor his approval.
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In pushing for a solution to gerrymandering, Schwarzenegger pointed to California's initiative in 2011 to have an independent panel redraw the sate's congressional map.
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The deal, announced back in March, will redraw the healthcare industry by combining a health insurer with a company that manages prescription drug benefits.
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Perhaps just as importantly, Republicans in the state have a history of extraordinary gerrymanders that redraw the state's congressional districts for their partisan gain.
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If the Court were to find partisan gerrymanders justiciable, the immediate effects would only be felt in Wisconsin, which would have to redraw its districts.
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But even in the House, Republicans' landslide wins in the 2010 midterm let the party redraw the lines for congressional districts, giving them an advantage.
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Data from the census would be used in 2021 by state legislatures to redraw district voting maps, which are updated every 10 years, Li said.
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The justices said that it was too late to redraw the map and questioned why the plaintiffs had waited six years to file their claim.
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If the legislature opts to redraw district lines again, it is almost certain to sow chaos among the 10 Republicans who hold seats in Congress.
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The judges ordered the General Assembly to redraw the lines, but when lawmakers balked, the judges hired an expert to help them do it themselves.
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I've watched as our legislature has tried to redraw the lines to prevent and to count out areas that are African American in our city.
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Most mobile device displays run at a 60Hz refresh rate, which lets them redraw the content on the screen up to 1203 times per second.
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The United States, Mexico and Canada are currently in talks to redraw the agreement, which U.S. President Donald Trump says is unfavorable to U.S. workers.
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That court ruled 85033-1 that 11 House of Delegates districts were gerrymandered along racial lines, ordering lawmakers to redraw the lines by Oct. 30.
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Decennial census data is used to redraw House districts, which determine how many seats each state receives and how many electoral votes they can cast.
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A shifting political battleground is common at the end of a decade, years after the decennial census reapportions districts and states redraw their political boundaries.
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The latest round of fighting kicked off last month, when a state court ordered the legislature to redraw congressional district lines in use since 2016.
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Most recently, I have been working on a project where I redraw images from Tumblr and screenshots from Messenger conversations that leave room for interpretation.
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Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a similar ruling, tossing the state's U.S. congressional map and commissioning an independent expert to redraw the lines.
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He tops the list of America's highest-paid chief executives in 2018, a year so lucrative for executives that we had to redraw our chart.
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Mr. Wolf said in an interview on Monday that he was optimistic Republican leaders would ultimately agree to redraw a "fair map" with his input.
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Already, Republican officials in Texas say they are considering how they might redraw political maps should the Trump administration prevail in the census question litigation.
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Beto O'Rourke said Tuesday that nominating Joe Biden for president could be key for Democrats trying to redraw Texas' congressional map for years to come.
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Above all, he has to redraw the boundaries of the neoliberal overclass to include not just oligarchs but also liberal-minded educated people in general.
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Control tends to breed more: Legislators have the ability to redraw political maps in the coming years and establish voting rules that benefit their party.
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In other ways, as well, the victors discovered that the lines on the map were not as easy to redraw as they had first thought.
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Cris Dush circulated a letter to House colleagues Monday urging the ouster of five justices who ruled that the legislature must redraw Pennsylvania's gerrymandered maps.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court declined Monday a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block a lower court ruling that ordered Pennsylvania to redraw congressional lines.
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If the map is ultimately struck down, it would mark the second time this decade North Carolina has been forced to redraw its congressional districts.
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Tom Wolf, the duty to redraw the maps was kicked back to the state Supreme Court, which released a new map a few weeks ago.
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The basic ideas behind this are that periodically we have elections that carry clear meaning and redraw political lines, creating new coalitions within each party.
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Having won the governor's office and control of the state legislature in 2010, Republicans were able to redraw the congressional maps following the 2010 Census.
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Each decade after the census, it is the state legislators and the governors in the majority of the states who redraw the maps of electoral districts.
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Hungarian nationalists, after all, remain unreconciled to the loss of Transylvania to Romania, and Romanian nationalists would like to redraw their borders to take in Moldova.
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If the court's next ruling says Texas has to redraw these three districts, the other congressional terrain nearby could be thrown out of whack as well.
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Democrats were helped when the state Supreme Court (controlled by Democrats) voted to redraw the state's congressional map after finding the old one an unconstitutional gerrymander.
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The ruling gives a green light to state lawmakers across the country to redraw their legislative maps in whatever manner best entrenches their own party's power.
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The opposition has claimed the election will be unfair - a plan to redraw electoral boundaries was rushed through parliament just days before Najib called for polls.
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That same year, Republicans won control of statehouses across the country, which gave them the ability to redraw electoral maps in the wake of the census.
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Even more importantly, gubernatorial and state legislative races on Tuesday and in 2020 will decide who gets to literally redraw electoral maps after the 2020 census.
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With the reunification of Germany, he helped redraw the map of Europe, and he set in motion a drastic reduction in the world's largest nuclear arsenals.
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Republicans declared a strategy in 2008 to capture control of state legislatures so that they could redraw congressional districts to their advantage after the 2010 census.
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The budget also eliminates money for efforts to improve and redraw the nation's flood maps and cuts about $90 million from the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program.
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In 2011, as a way of trying to remove partisan influence over the process, the state enlisted an independent, nonpartisan citizens commission to redraw the lines.
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But one rationale was far more conspicuous than the others: that state legislatures could use it to redraw their legislative maps in 2021 without counting nonvoters.
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Although participants thought they had a good grasp on the designs, expressing confidence that they could redraw them without seeing them, their actual reproductions proved otherwise.
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Whether Democrats can regain the statehouse, redraw Virginia's congressional districts, and fulfill one of Obamacare's promises will depend on dozens of below-the-radar statehouse races.
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Specifically, these key elections are for the members of the state house, state senate, and (usually) governors in the 37 states where politicians redraw the congressional maps.
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Orban, who did not say when the vote might be held, has said the quotas would redraw the ethnic, cultural and religious map of Hungary and Europe.
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The Nepali government says a political panel will be tasked to redraw the internal boundaries of federal provinces within three months, another key demand of the Madhesis.
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OF THE things that investors and bosses have come to like about Donald Trump, the most important is his promise to redraw America's knackered corporate-tax system.
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In 2010, Somali parents and the superintendent in the majority-white Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie led efforts to redraw elementary school boundaries to integrate the schools.
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Both Democrats running for governor could have huge policy impacts on people in the state — and potentially weigh in on the maps the states redraw in 22016.
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Meanwhile, Prisma, a photo app for iOS and Android, was using AI-powered effects to break down images and redraw them in the style of famous paintings.
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State Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) is appealing a district court ruling that requires the state to redraw its 22019 congressional redistricting plan before the 2020 election.
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The Supreme Court denied a request on Monday to stay a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling for state lawmakers to redraw its map due to Republican-led gerrymandering.
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The city's Education Department proposed to redraw the schools' attendance zone so that some blocks assigned to the crowded school would be shifted to the emptier one.
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But a successful Russia-Syria offensive on Aleppo would redraw the map in important ways and could complicate any plans for further American military action in Syria.
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The measure would change the way the state draws up its political district lines, by empowering an independent 13-person commission to redraw congressional and legislative districts.
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Last month, the Supreme Court blocked a decision from a different federal court in North Carolina that had ordered state lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional maps.
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Legislative Republicans said Cooper had overstepped his authority in calling the special session, because the three-judge panel had not ordered the legislature to redraw district lines.
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Pete Buttigieg: "Americans are picking up their possessions to flee a super storm and the president is picking up a Sharpie to redraw a weather map." pic.twitter.
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In a nearly 200-page opinion, the three-judge panel ruled that state Republicans drew excessively partisan districts when previously ordered to redraw the state's congressional map.
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The court ordered the state to ensure that no further elections are conducted under the 2016 map and to redraw the map before the 2018 midterm elections.
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There will be enormous pressure on Perez to turn the party's fortunes around quickly, particularly at the state level, where legislators will redraw district lines in 2020.
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North Carolina legislators will redraw it again after the 2020 census, and the state is slated to gain at least one congressional seat in the next decade.
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Whitford — focuses on Wisconsin's election map, the stakes are much higher; after the 2020 census, every state will redraw its districts to last the next ten years.
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Critics have also suggested the government is effectively trying to redraw the definition of serious crime to still be able to afford state agencies' indiscriminate bulk data access.
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At the heart of the Maryland case was the decision to redraw the state's sixth congressional district, previously held by a Republican and now held by a Democrat.
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Given enough such examples (ideally, hundreds or thousands) the network learns what the face looks like, and how to redraw it from any angle and with any expression.
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That's why the most important turning point for the future of the Democratic Party will take place in 2021: when states redraw their congressional and state legislative lines.
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"I wanted to redraw them with my own professional skills to make them proud of their own creativity, and simply to have fun," said Romain about his work.
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He now hopes to redraw the partisan map, pulling in support from both left and right for a pro-European, centrist movement that embraces globally-minded progressive politics.
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Republicans are expected to challenge the decision from the Supreme Court, saying that only lawmakers and governors hold the authority to redraw congressional maps, rather than the courts.
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The website said Gwin's decision forces Cleveland to redraw an "event zone" meant for managing a massive number of people who could gather outside the event next month.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to pause a pair of lower court rulings ordering that Ohio and Michigan redraw their district maps ahead of the 2020 election.
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Writing for the panel in Thursday's ruling, United States Circuit Judge James Wynn said that requiring lawmakers to redraw maps now would confuse voters, candidates and election officials.
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In recognition of the work Esguerra is doing to redraw the traditional lines of healthcare, Business Insider just named him one of 30 young leaders transforming the industry.
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The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday put a lower-court ruling on temporary hold that would have mandated North Carolina to redraw its congressional district lines next week.
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Some local tour operators say they are already receiving requests from overseas partners to redraw the itinerary of foreign tourists to avoid even an overnight stay in Delhi.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case brought by Republican officials in Pennsylvania challenging the state Supreme Court's ability to redraw their congressional redistricting plan.
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Rove's idea manifested as Project REDMAP, a dark-money campaign to support Republican candidates for state legislature and then help them redraw House districts after the 2010 census.
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There is now a general view among all of the political campaigns — including Mr. Trump's — that the coronavirus could well redraw the existing contours of the presidential race.
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Doing so was worth it, in part on its own terms — it drove home the play's point — and in part because it pushed me to redraw my boundaries.
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The drive to redraw the map of contemporary African art comes as African governments step up pressure on Western museums to return artifacts seized during the colonial era.
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Emmanuel Macron, fresh from becoming the youngest French leader since Napoleon, now looks set to redraw the political map with a party he only formed a year ago.
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Their struggles illustrate the complex global consequences of U.S. protectionism as tariffs launched by President Donald Trump spark retaliations and redraw global agricultural supply lines around the globe.
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While the district court had issued a ruling invalidating the districts it had not yet taken the final step of telling the state how to redraw the maps.
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The release comes as Trump and congressional Republicans put final touches on a tax bill that will slash the corporate tax rate and redraw tax brackets for individuals.
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He murmured a wish: He wanted to redraw one of the comic characters, a barrel-chested flying crusader, to more closely resemble the lanky young actor holding him.
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The Monday decision comes after the Supreme Court in September put two rulings on hold that required Texas officials to redraw both the state's congressional and legislative districts.
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To land somewhere unfamiliar is to force yourself into alertness, to redraw whatever maps you have, to set the stage for creativity more than mere pattern-matching productivity.
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What's certain is that we, the viewers and the voters, need to redraw the line between entertainment and politics, between producer-crafted reality-TV narratives and actual reality.
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Republicans, using new technology that allows them to redraw congressional districts based on data that previous gerrymanderers could only have dreamed of, have taken this to new heights.
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Washington (CNN)A top Pennsylvania state Senate Republican is refusing to follow a court order requiring lawmakers to turn over data that would redraw the state's congressional map.
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Already, there is a push to redraw the boundaries of Jerusalem to eject much of its Arab population and add tens of thousands of residents to Israeli settlements.
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Gerrymandering isn't a problem in most advanced democracies, because most democracies have large, multi-member districts that are both harder and less consequential to redraw for partisan gain.
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A 2015 study Hofeller conducted found that Republicans could use the new data to redraw voting districts based not on population but on the number of voting-age citizens.
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In a separate case, a federal court last month ordered North Carolina lawmakers to redraw 28 state House and Senate districts on the grounds that they were racially gerrymandered.
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The announcement on the Golan Heights was the latest in a flurry of decisions that are widely seen as intended to redraw the contours of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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I did have to redraw the boundaries multiple times, because the furniture in my test room got significantly rearranged between sessions, but that only takes a minute or two.
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On January 22nd Pennsylvania's Supreme Court held that the state's congressional map "clearly, plainly and palpably" violates the state constitution, and gave legislators until February 43th to redraw it.
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A Trump victory has been viewed as a key risk for the Mexican currency given his promises to clamp down on immigration and redraw trade relations with the country.
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Supporters of the president say the committee exists only to redraw the 28 states' borders, while opponents say a return to the 10-state system is on the table.
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When, like in the case of Brexit, the collaboration is taken to be more of a burden than an asset, a desire to redraw the rules of association emerges.
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No changes to the status of Grand Staircase could reverse those trends, and, except rhetorically, the decision to redraw its boundaries had nothing to do with the cattle industry.
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Republicans in Virginia's General Assembly are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delay a lower court's requirement that it redraw state legislative district lines by the end of October.
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For the first time since 1993, Democrats control both chambers in the legislature and the governor's office — allowing them to redraw the state's legislative boundaries after next year's census.
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The court told state lawmakers to redraw the state's 18 House districts, which currently favor Republicans, and it left open the possibility that it would impose its own map.
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Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe.
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MONTREAL/HONG KONG (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan are setting aside historical grievances to redraw responsibilities for air traffic control over the East China Sea following recent near misses.
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Roy Cooper (D) will call the Republican-led state legislature into special session in the coming days in an effort to force members to redraw the state's political maps.
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Census data is used to redraw House districts, and the number of House seats each state receives also plays a part in determining each state's number of electoral votes.
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The ruling in the case is due by late June, but Douglas points out that in 2020, after the next census, states will have to once again redraw lines.
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A Trump victory has been viewed as a key risk for the Mexican currency given Trump's promises to clamp down on immigration and redraw trade relations with the country.
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The court temporarily blocked a lower court order to redraw the state's congressional lines by the end of the month, as the case was appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Kavanaugh could have to deal with cases involving a practice called partisan gerrymandering in which state legislators redraw electoral maps to try to cement their own party in power.
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He also said he would work to reduce the executive authority granted to the presidency and work to eliminate the power of elected officials to redraw congressional district maps.
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Worse for the party were huge losses at the state level, which allowed Republicans to control legislatures across the country that allowed them to redraw many legislative district lines.
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The court gave the Pennsylvania General Assembly a tight turnaround to redraw the state's congressional districts, requiring legislators to submit a revised map for gubernatorial approval by Feb. 9.
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Although the opposition appears to be gaining traction, the odds do seem against its winning the contest, especially since the government continues to redraw voting districts to its advantage.
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In the Maryland case, state Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) is challenging a November court ruling that asked lawmakers to redraw the 6th congressional district map before the 2020 election.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder will be chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a new organization that aims to redraw district maps for future elections, Politico reported on Monday.
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Were it, for instance, to insist that it would be better to remain in the single market or customs union, the government might be forced to redraw its red lines.
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Kavanaugh could also have to deal with cases involving a practice called partisan gerrymandering in which state legislators redraw electoral maps to try to cement their own party in power.
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Obama has thrown his weight behind an effort, lead by former Attorney General Eric Holder, to win them back ahead of redistricting in 2020, when lawmakers will redraw congressional maps.
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Republicans have won the last five gubernatorial elections in Florida, and the state's next governor will have control over the process to redraw congressional district maps after the 2020 Census.
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"The most important turning point for the future of the Democratic Party will take place in 2021 when states redraw their Congressional and state legislative lines," reads the group's website.
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Georgia's state House last month passed a bill to redraw eight Republican-held districts, most of them in the Atlanta suburbs, where incumbents won reelection by narrow margins this November.
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"I probably redraw the item three to four times before we have something that everyone is on board with," Dongarra says of the weeks it takes to get it right.
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A panel of federal judges in San Antonio ruled late Friday that the Texas state legislature must redraw congressional maps in three districts it said unconstitutionally discriminates against Hispanic voters.
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Justices continued that trend in twin rulings issued Thursday that declined to establish a legal framework for how state officials can redraw maps used to determine precincts in national elections.
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In delivering its ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed lower rulings that had already led the state to redraw its congressional maps to not factor in race as much as before.
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The city's education department comes to him for the data it uses to redraw school zones, he said, as does the health department when it needs to understand illness rates.
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The New York City Education Department released its plan to redraw school zones in Community School District 2112 in Manhattan, which encompasses the Upper West Side and part of Harlem.
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Washington (CNN)A federal court concluded Tuesday there is "insufficient time" before the November midterm elections to redraw an electoral map that the same court earlier ruled is unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
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By also providing block-level data on eligible voters, the bureau is opening the door for states to redraw their legislative maps in 2021 based on that population base instead.
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The court will also appoint a referee to review the redrawn maps before they are enacted, and if the legislature tries to delay, the referee could redraw the maps itself.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE on Wednesday announced three new senior staff hires as it prepares for a fight to redraw election maps in 28503.
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State legislative Republicans did not publicly react to the ruling by Monday evening, but legislative leaders have already been preparing for a special session meant to redraw legislative district lines.
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The federal court has asked both sides whether they would be available for a remedial hearing in August or September, a sign that the court might redraw the map instead.
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They seized the opportunity to have their own party-controlled legislature redraw the district maps instead of the courts, which take over in the case of a divided state government.
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Whitford, dates back to 2011, when Wisconsin Republicans in control of the state legislature used voters political leanings to redraw district lines to lock in a heavy majority of seats.
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Barzani, at a news conference at his headquarters near Erbil, dismissed the worries of Iraq's neighbors, committing to respect laws on international boundaries and not seek to redraw the region's borders.
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Russia has now reopened the strait, but the clash was another demonstration of Moscow's ever-mounting appetite to use unorthodox, partially nonmilitary and sometimes nonlethal techniques to redraw the geopolitical map.
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Wilbur Ross: The billionaire private equity firm man told CNN's "Erin Burnett Outfront" that an effort to redraw NAFTA would be "a logical starting point" once he arrived on the job.
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Those advocating to redraw the border that separates Kosovo and Serbia believe it can normalize relations between the two countries — a key precursor to either nation ever joining the European Union.
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On September 10th the government announced plans to redraw Britain's electoral map and create constituencies with roughly equal numbers of voters—cutting the current number of MPs, from 603 to 600.
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Some Republicans wonder if a Trump candidacy might redraw the electoral map, winning over blue-collar whites who don't normally vote in rustbelt swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin.
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It will always seem easier to bring water in, or to exploit a new source, than to move tens of millions of people, or completely redraw the map of agricultural production.
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Let us redraw the lines of the federal district to only include Capitol Hill, the White House, the Supreme Court, federal department and agency buildings, the monuments, and the national mall.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's government will on Wednesday seek parliamentary approval to redraw electoral boundaries, a move critics say will benefit his ruling coalition in national polls.
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While state legislators are allowed to redraw district lines for political gain, they are not allowed to use race in a way that goes beyond what the Voting Rights Act requires.
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And in the United States, the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy and President Trump's selection to succeed him is expected to redraw the well-established legal battle lines over abortion rights.
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They knew it was happening, but it was too hard to redraw the entire system, so they kept fitting politics to a symmetrical picture as it became more and more asymmetrical.
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I spoke with Wolf this weekend about how gerrymandering became such a big issue in Pennsylvania and what role governors can play when it comes time to redraw maps after 2020.
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The buildup comes as the country faces shifting security dynamics in the region, with a newly elected US president who looks poised to upend the diplomatic playbook and redraw the geopolitical map.
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This next redistricting battle — starting in November, as Democrats try to win the races that will let them redraw the next decade's maps — might provide a path toward staving off that crisis.
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Education officials on Tuesday approved a plan to redraw two Brooklyn school zones, shifting a neighborhood of rising wealth from a mostly white elementary school to a mostly black and Hispanic one.
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Europeans' latest fears for the region center on Kosovo — which in 2008 unilaterally declared independence from Serbia — and the growing prospect of an agreement to redraw the border between the two countries.
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When it came time to redraw districts, Hofeller not only knew how to churn the data and work with the software — but he also knew exactly how this power could be used.
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It's GOP state legislatures using the conjunction of that bonanza with the 2010 census to redraw maps in a way that lets them continue to hold power with a minority of votes.
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You can erase the graphite lines and redraw them, which means you can play with Papier Machine as many times as you want, as long as you take good care of it.
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That, in turn, would help redraw voting districts across the country in favor of his Republican party, encouraging the president to pursue a legal battle that he has little chance of winning.
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Democrats are close to regaining control of at least one legislative chamber and maintaining the governorship in the state, which would allow them to veto and redraw Republican-favored maps in 85033.
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Those results clear the way for Democrats to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment — which bans discrimination based on sex — and will allow the party to redraw legislative boundaries after next year's census.
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Emily's List on Wednesday announced a major campaign targeting state-level Republicans in elections through 28500, the next year that state officials will redraw the borders of their legislative and congressional districts.
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In Pennsylvania this past January, the Supreme Court forced the state to redraw its congressional map, which was so gerrymandered, the justices wrote, that it "clearly, plainly, and palpably" violated its constitution.
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Recently the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a bitter dispute in North Carolina in which Democrats argue that a plan to redraw electoral lines would weaken the influence of black voters.
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The results of the census are used to redraw House districts, and the number of House seats each state receives also plays a part in determining each state's number of electoral votes.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday agreed to a request from Texas officials to temporarily block a lower court order directing Texas to redraw two of the state's 36 congressional districts.
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It gave crucial momentum to Mr. Trump's campaign to redraw trade pacts with longstanding allies like Japan, Canada, Mexico and the European Union, even as he widens a trade war with China.
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The department also wanted to redraw the school zone lines in the area to divide the STEM Institute's zone among P.S. 76 and three other nearby schools in Community School District 3.
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Tensions in Malakal, already high, escalated to a boiling point following President Salva Kiir's decision in late 2015 to redraw the map of South Sudan and replace the country's 10 states with 28.
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Today, as the price of most flagship phones falls closer to $1,000, instead of the $600 or $650 you might be accustomed too, $500 seems like a decent place to redraw the line.
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With the 2020 census the next opportunity to redraw congressional districts, the 2018 elections are a critical time for Democrats to pick up state legislature and gubernatorial seats, where they are badly outnumbered.
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It would signal to Russia that the U.S. and the international community will tolerate Moscow's efforts to redraw other borders and annex other territories in central and eastern Europe and former Soviet republics.
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In a 6900-2628 ruling, the judges for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that state lawmakers must redraw lines for state House districts by Oct. 28503.
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It now falls to the U.S. and its allies to redraw the red line over chemical weapons that Obama never should have erased in deference to Russia and the UN back in 2013.
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That initiative, funded by conservative billionaire Charles Munger, gave the power to redraw district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, a group of 85033 members — five Republicans, five Democrats and four independents.
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The court on Tuesday heard two cases dealing with redistricting, looking at whether North Carolina Republicans and Maryland Democrats used their control of the state legislatures to redraw district maps to their advantage.
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Not only that, but the court may force the state to redraw those districts before the elections just a little more than two months away, an outcome that would almost certainly favor Democrats.
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There was also some worry that government officials, had they been ordered to redraw the maps for this election cycle, would not be able to print ballots in time to meet a Sept.
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But the court also handed Republicans a key victory, ruling that the Constitution doesn't prohibit partisan gerrymandering, a practice in which a governing party can redraw election districts to help its candidates win.
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Whitford is straightforward enough: After taking control of Wisconsin's Legislature and State Capitol in 2010, Republicans used computer models and voting data to redraw political boundaries in the Assembly, the Legislature's lower house.
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"I'm pleased to announce the United States has begun negotiations on extending our compacts.... they sustain democracy in the face of Chinese efforts to redraw the Pacific," Pompeo told reporters at the time.
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Lamone, the court affirmed a district court's decision not to block Maryland from holding congressional elections under the 2011 map and force state officials redraw its Sixth Congressional District, now held by Rep.
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Census data is used to redraw House districts and the number of House seats each state receives also plays a part in determining each state's number of electoral votes in a presidential election.
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If Republicans are forced to redraw the boundaries, Mr. Madonna said, they might "sacrifice" Mr. Meehan's district to shore up other Republican districts in a way that could pass muster with the court.
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With the rise of techno and house music in the decade following 1993, IDM would come to redraw the lines of the dance music genre exactly like German Romanticism had revolutionized classical music.
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With the 20213 census the next opportunity to redraw congressional districts, the 2018 elections are a critical time for Democrats to pick up state legislature and gubernatorial seats, where they are badly outnumbered.
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Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, they have had to carefully balance their ambitions for full independence with the threat of a backlash from their neighbors and the reluctance of Washington to redraw borders.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE are overseeing the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), which aims to redraw the congressional district maps that currently tilt heavily in favor of Republicans.
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Democrats hold 21 of the state's 27 congressional districts after picking up three seats this year, and the Democratic-led legislature could redraw districts to solidify those gains or expand into GOP-held territory.
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House Republicans have since said Democrats were merely absent from the floor to secretly redraw maps of political districts in violation of a court order, though Democrats have denied they were breaking any rules.
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that Republicans have said many Democrats were absent from the floor to secretly redraw political maps, while Democrats have denied they were doing anything secretive.
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If the three-judge panel agrees with Democrats that the newly proposed maps still do not meet the court order, they could turn to a special master to redraw the district lines once again.
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DETROIT, July 11 (Reuters) - An expanded alliance between Ford Motor Co and Volkswagen AG that includes a partnership in Ford self-driving unit Argo AI could redraw the balance of power in autonomous vehicles.
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And that could ultimately shake up how far Republicans and Democrats can go in trying to redraw legislative maps to gain a political advantage, effectively encouraging state lawmakers to be less aggressive when gerrymandering.
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At Chelsea, Antonio Conte had to redraw his plans for his game with Bournemouth because Michy Batshuayi, his striker, had suddenly been lent to Borussia Dortmund, so that Giroud might be signed from Arsenal.
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Larry Beck, 67, a Republican from New Bern, near the coast, said the federal courts should leave the mapping of congressional districts to the states, and that this was no time to redraw them.
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From Egypt to Sudan and the Horn of Africa, the two Gulf monarchies have coordinated their use of financial clout and — in Yemen — military force to redraw the region's political landscape to their advantage.
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The department planned to merge the school into nearby Public School 76, the A. Philip Randolph School, and then redraw school zone lines to redistribute parts of P.S. 241's zone to other schools.
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Leaders of the still-powerful French and British empires used the conflict to redraw borders in ways that set the stage for future conflicts that stretch on today, in the Middle East, for example.
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In 22019, the last election before states redraw their political boundaries using new Census data, the winners of many state legislatures get the power to draw congressional lines that will last an entire decade.
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Washington (CNN)Faced with a Friday deadline to redraw the state's congressional maps, Pennsylvania Republicans are instead insisting they'll continue to fight against the state Supreme Court -- with one lawmaker calling for justices' impeachment.
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Democratic victories on Tuesday would give the party control of all the levers of government in Richmond to rewrite policy and, crucially, redraw the state's political maps for the next decade after the census.
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Lastly, the group is seeking to set up a watchdog and tech arm to call attention to gerrymandering, like a recent plot by Georgia Republicans to redraw several legislative districts to help sitting lawmakers.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday introduced a controversial proposal in parliament to redraw electoral boundaries that critics say will give the ruling coalition an easy win in the upcoming elections.
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Indeed, Russia appears to have already commenced its testing of Trump's Washington; a resurgence of heavy fighting in Eastern Ukraine suggests Moscow may be embarking on an offensive that could redraw Ukrainian borders beyond Crimea.
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That's because, in most states, those legislatures will soon redraw the congressional district maps that will heavily influence which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives for the next decade, a process known as gerrymandering.
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Pennsylvania had to throw out its district maps and start over again for the 2018 election; North Carolina was recently ordered to redraw its maps, but will use the existing maps for the 2018 vote.
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A North Carolina court ruling on Monday ordering the state legislature to redraw congressional district boundaries has Republican members of Congress reconsidering their future in what is almost certain to be a boon for Democrats.
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What's worse, a president who rampantly violates the norms of American politics will drag many in his party into complete or near complicity; he will redraw the boundaries of what is acceptable in American politics.
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Rather than merely re-photographing source material, he opted to redraw drawings, primarily political cartoons, mining the pages of the New Yorker and men's magazines dating back to the Cold War and the arms race.
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In most cases, the state legislature controls the redistricting process, which means that the party with control over the legislature has the ability to gerrymander, or redraw congressional districts in the interests of that party.
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The decennial count of United States residents, which the Constitution mandates to include both citizens and noncitizens, is used to apportion House seats among the states and to redraw both local and state political boundaries.
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The Supreme Court's conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn't have the power to address partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which politicians redraw district maps to help their own party win more elections.
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But the court was unanimous in ruling lawmakers had relied too heavily on race to redraw District 1, and were split in a 5–3 majority regarding District 12, according to the New York Times.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that the U.S. is not getting a fair deal when it comes to global trade and has threatened to redraw the rules in order to protect the American economy.
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As the West wants eastern Europe to follow its lead, an increasingly vicious struggle was likely, he said, alluding to a plan to redraw the European alliance advocated by the leaders of France and Germany.
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The results are used not just to redraw political boundaries from school boards to House seats, but to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and subsidies to where they are needed most.
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But why he is doing this now, rather than during the last government, may have to do with larger changes to Israel's political landscape, in particular the opportunity to redraw the map of political rivalries.
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The Treasury may also redraw its 2020 Annual Financing Plan due to the market and economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, although this does not necessarily mean it will issue more debt this year.
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Organizers of the Euros would also be required to extend contracts for 400 workers for another year and to redraw staging contracts with host cities and venues, and then come to new agreements with broadcasters.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on March 2613 that Hungary would need to redraw its budgets for 2020 and 2021 and offer major assistance to economic sectors worst hit by the spread of the virus.
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Since the Dayton Accords of 1995 put an end to three years of fighting in Bosnia, it has been a bedrock principle of the West not to redraw borders along ethnic lines in the Balkans.
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If he begins annexing West Bank territory, as promised, it would flout international opinion and law, deal a potentially fatal blow to the two-state solution and redraw the map of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The committee hopes a successful court battle will give the party enough time to redraw the maps ahead of the 2020 congressional elections and put them in a place to influence the 2021 redistricting process.
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But there's a major question mark: The state's Supreme Court just ordered lawmakers to redraw Pennsylvania's congressional district lines by mid-February, which could completely change the state's political landscape before the 2018 midterm elections.
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WHEN KATIE FAHEY (pictured), a Michigan resident, founded Voters Not Politicians in 2017, she took aim at gerrymandering—the increasingly potent practice whereby politicians of both parties redraw electoral lines to maximise their party's advantage.
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In 1968, after a federal court ordered the Legislature to redraw Brooklyn's congressional districts, ruling that they discriminated against black voters, he ran with the informal support of party leaders in the new 12th District.
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Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, Macron's European election emissary, has a front-seat role in persuading parties from across the left-right divide to rally behind the president's drive to redraw the landscape and make Europe relevant again.
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Ford and VW have already started cooperating in the area of commercial vehicles as part of the auto industry's broader effort to redraw production and sales footprints to cope with more stringent regulation and fragmented markets.
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In recent years, GOP officials and conservative legal groups laid the legal groundwork for states to redraw legislative maps after the 2020 census by using a state's citizen voting-age population instead of its total population.
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An alternative would be to redraw the pairings after the group stage, putting the winners in one pot and the runners-up in another, which would stamp out teams trying to position themselves into second place.
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They took decades of grass-roots organizing, legal battles to redraw voting districts favoring white candidates, new sources of campaign money and the harnessing of visceral reactions to President Trump's use of slurs against Native Americans.
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WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court on Monday refused to stop Pennsylvania's highest court from requiring lawmakers there to redraw the state's congressional map, which the state court had found to be marred by partisan gerrymandering.
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As his administration this week imposed punitive tariffs on a Canadian airplane manufacturer, it exacerbated confusion over where Mr. Trump might venture next in his zeal to redraw the terms of American commerce with the world.
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But the state Supreme Court has ordered the state to redraw its congressional map by mid-February — ruling earlier this week that the current map, which has been in place since 2012, violates the commonwealth's constitution.
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The victor controls the party's purse strings, and the true prize: command over selecting a committee that will redraw the legislative map, a power that can make or break candidates and is a potent bargaining chip.
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A court on Tuesday said there was not enough time to redraw a North Carolina redistricting map that had been ruled unconstitutional last month, meaning the map will still be used in the 2018 midterm elections.
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The party also said that the Pennsylvania's secretary of state website confused voters by noting new district lines set to take effect in November following the state Supreme Court's order to redraw districts, the source added.
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Every ten years, state legislatures redraw both their own seats and federal House districts using the bureau's block-level data on total population—the Census-tabulated head count of every single person inside the United States.
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The measure pending before the City Council is the culmination of a long effort to push Mr. de Blasio to redraw his housing plan to address a homeless crisis that has shown no signs of abating.
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As Vox's Ella Nilsen previously explained, North Carolina was already forced by a 2011 Supreme Court decision to redraw its congressional districts because they were found to be illegally gerrymandering the state's maps along racial lines.
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Here we must erase the imaginary lines of identification and redraw them, not because we are kindhearted or have seen the light, but because we realize on which side of the divide our best interests lie.
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Any feasible construction project is going to need to be straighter than the actual border, which is going to mean using the federal government's eminent domain powers to take privately owned land and basically redraw the border.
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Check out more videos from VICE: And, thank the election gods, the high court has agreed to take a look at (potential) constitutional limits on partisan gerrymandering—you know, when Republicans redraw district lines in their favor.
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If the justices held that states had to redraw maps based on eligible and registered voters alone, large urban areas would see their electoral power diluted in favor of rural regions that trend whiter and more conservative.
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Colorado, Michigan, and Utah have also advanced state constitutional amendments that, if implemented, would allow independent commissions to redraw gerrymandered districts instead of state lawmakers—a key issue as legislators prepare for redistricting after the 2020 census.
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MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte travels to China next month on a visit that could redraw alliances in East Asia after his incendiary comments about the United States and active courting of Washington's chief rivals.
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Instead, they see an effort to redraw the theater's mission to make Berlin a more attractive and marketable destination for tourists and for the internationally minded millennials who have moved into many of that city's trendiest districts.
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Democrats on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration sharply criticized the record of the nominee, GOP attorney James "Trey" Trainor, citing his past opposition to donor disclosure and his work to redraw political maps in Texas.
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But these are the very people Guedes needs to convince if his plans to redraw Brazil's pension system, save the public purse around 1 trillion reais over the next decade, and revive the economy are to succeed.
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Should the Supreme Court strike down egregious gerrymandering early next year, Mr. Stephanopoulos said there was a faint chance that some states with the most partisan maps could be forced to redraw them before the 2018 election.
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In recent years, anti-choice attacks have increased exponentially partly because the anti-choice movement was particularly good at leveraging the reapportionment process, when state legislatures redraw Congressional and state legislative district lines following the federal census.
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Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department has supported states that are resisting court orders to rein in voter ID requirements, stop aggressive purges of voter rolls and redraw political boundaries that dilute minority voting power.
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The redistricting group will aim to help states redraw congressional maps in 2021 so they don't produce extraordinarily safe Republican seats, potentially creating a more level playing field for Democrats to compete in the House of Representatives.
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In October 2015, just a little over a month after the peace deal with Machar's forces had been inked, Kiir issued an order to redraw the country's internal boundaries, increasing the number of states from 10 to 28.
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An ardent Europhile, Macron wants to redraw the European political landscape, much as he did in France in 2017, building a new political group by tapping into growing disaffection among the mainstream alliances on the left and right.
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A new district map, however, would be in place for only one election as North Carolina -- along with all other states with more than one congressional district -- will be required to redraw its districts following the 2020 census.
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Such a change would provide a new opportunity for Republican-controlled states - those most likely to adopt citizens-only redistricting - to redraw their voting maps in a way that could help their party win more state-level elections.
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" Pence has opted for stronger rhetoric, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2015 that, "A new Iron Curtain is descending down the spine of Europe as modern Russia seeks to redraw the map of Europe by force.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The latest U.S. proposal to redraw auto sector rules under a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is not acceptable and not viable, the head of Mexico's automotive industry association (AMIA) said on Monday.
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Early this month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that maps for two districts were unconstitutional, and ordered the state to redraw their lines within two weeks.
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What's next: If the Supreme Court sides with the black and Hispanic voters, the case would be sent back to the lower court to remedy the alleged infractions — and redraw the districts — before 2020's round of redistricting.
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But the new rules, five years in the making, are a disappointment to some critics, who had hoped the organization would approve more significant changes and redraw the geographic regions to ensure equivalent wait times throughout the country.
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Iran is training thousands of militiamen in Syria and bringing in new technologies like drones, growing its network of proxies to redraw the strategic map of the Middle East — and possibly present a regional united front against Israel.
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The awe-inspiring beauty of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias — originally given to the state in 2628 — spurred a national campaign to redraw the boundaries of Yosemite National Park to include them in 28503.
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The narrator, whose own mother sporadically disappears, leaving her and her "feral" brothers to fend for themselves, is driven by a desire to redraw the contours of her life by growing more confident, and by experiencing maternal love.
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Negotiations between the United States, Canada and Mexico to redraw the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were clouded this week by Trump's plan to slap 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and claims that trade wars are good.
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Tanzania's minister for tourism and natural resources, Jumanne Maghembe, said the exercise to redraw boundaries of protected sites would be led by the country's National Parks Authority (TANAPA) to safeguard wildlife sanctuaries from illegal cattle grazing, logging and poaching.
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The government highlighted the threat posed by Russia, which it said was "openly calling the European peace order into question" with a willingness to use force to advance its interests and to redraw borders in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
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To redraw the common image that people have of mental health, while also simultaneously bringing to light that this is something so profoundly human in its purest state—emotion, feeling, depth—something that should be given acute attention to.
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They say the citizenship question is actually a central element of a Republican strategy to try to shift political boundaries to the party's advantage when the states begin using the new census to redraw their district maps in 2021.
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Documents from his computer backups show he had prepared a study for a major Republican donor in 2015 concluding that data from a citizenship question could enable state legislators to redraw political boundaries after the census to Republicans' advantage.
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But mixed in with the standard stuff is a liveliness that the canon at large can lack, and a willingness to redraw the lines of genre in a way that accounts for a more global understanding of female experience.
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In the meantime, because the court voted to stay the lower-court decision ordering Wisconsin to redraw its district lines before the 2018 elections, the state's Republican-friendly maps are likely to remain for at least one more cycle.
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While Democrats will likely hold the House in 2020, if the GOP in state legislatures can redraw the districts in their favor after the census, Republicans could well retake it in 2022 and hold it for the next decade.
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But there was no immediate sign that Trump has any inclination to play a leadership role that would have the capacity to redraw the entrenched political stands that both parties are already adopting on gun control after Wednesday's attack.
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Just weeks after Mr. Obama declared Bears Ears a monument, a federal judge ruled that the county's decades-old practice of concentrating Navajo people in one voting district "offends basic democratic principles," and ordered officials to redraw the lines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the U.S. Constitution limits how far lawmakers can go to redraw voting districts to favor one political party over another in a case that could have huge consequences for American elections.
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As the pair discover new desires and temptations, they redraw the boundaries of their identities and navigate intimacy as new adults — and Rooney is masterful in her teasing out the roles of love, loyalty, privilege, and power in their relationship.
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China's richest man is backing plans to launch a rival to the Uefa Champions League, aiming for European leagues and clubs to join a new competition that would redraw the power structure and finances at the top of the sport.
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Naftali Bennett, the leader of the hard-right Jewish Home party, says he will propose a bill to extend Israeli sovereignty to Maale Adumim, arguing that the new American administration offers "a unique window of opportunity" to redraw the map.
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It is confident of its strength—since the financial crisis of 2008 it has touted state-guided capitalism as superior to free markets—and newly willing to show its teeth, deploying military might to redraw maps in the South China Sea.
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Voting rights: Allow citizens to register to vote online and be registered automatically; require paper ballots in federal elections; make Election Day a federal holiday; prohibit voter roll purging; and end partisan gerrymandering by having independent commissions redraw congressional districts.
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Ford and VW have already started cooperating in the area of commercial vehicles and mid-size pickup trucks as part of the auto industry's broader effort to redraw production and sales footprints to cope with more stringent regulation and fragmented markets.
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For the first time since 1993, Democrats won control of both chambers in the legislature and governor, allowing them to redraw the state legislative boundaries after the census next year, all but solidifying the future of Virginia as a blue state.
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Built jointly by Gezhouba Group and Kazakh firm Corporation DANAKE, the plant is an illustration of how China is using its "Belt and Road" initiative to redraw its manufacturing footprint well beyond its own borders, reshaping industries in the process.
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MEXICO CITY, April 30 (Reuters) - The latest U.S. proposal to redraw auto sector rules under a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is not acceptable and not viable, the head of Mexico's automotive industry association (AMIA) said on Monday.
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He was there, as promised, to entrust his presidential legacy and the hopes of conservatives everywhere to a nominee who would emerge from obscurity to inherit the considerable power to redraw the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for a generation.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said discussions had revolved around providing military assistance to defeat Islamic State militants, also known as Daesh, who seized a third of Iraq in 2014 and want to redraw the map of the Middle East.
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But a group of Virginia Democrats did just that earlier this month, when they voted in favor of an amendment to the State Constitution stripping themselves of the power to redraw legislative district maps in 2021, after the decennial census.
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The negotiations have brought other initiatives to a standstill, including a six-year push to impose a tax on financial transactions, as the European Union tries to redraw the financial map ahead of Britain's departure from the bloc, Bloomberg has reported.
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To their horror, Brunell "has testified more than half a dozen times on behalf of Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, and is the author of a 2008 book titled "Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.
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The analysis does not examine whether or how the balance of power in the House of Representatives could shift as districts are eliminated or added when states redraw their maps in the coming years based on the official 2020 Census figures.
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In August, a federal appeals court found that district maps drawn by Republicans for the 2012 General Assembly elections included more than two dozen districts that were racial gerrymanders, and the court ordered lawmakers to redraw the maps next year.
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President Woodrow Wilson rightly opposed the Trianon Treaty; he felt that strangers should not be allowed to redraw the borders in Central Europe and overnight turn millions of Hungarians into foreigners in the towns that were built by their fathers.
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Photographs reveal how both authorities and detainees redraw borders as liminal, literally marginalizing zones, where people are stopped and forced to wait — as at European airports, often located deep inside national borders, yet legally exempted from the barrier-free Schengen Area.
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As a result, a poor performance by the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections gave Republicans control of statehouses across the country, allowing them to redraw legislative maps to fashion districts that would help ensure their long-term electoral success.
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Besides trying to make an impact on state policy, 230 congressional redistricting is weighing heavily on Democrats' minds; state legislatures have the power to redraw congressional maps every 224 years, and Republicans had the upper hand the last time around.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish Academy, which picks the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, acknowledged on Friday that names of some previous prize winners had been leaked in advance and it pledged to redraw the ancient rules governing how it functions.
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French politics/EU: French President Emmanuel Macron said he would not waste too much of his time on Brexit and would instead seek to redraw the map of "ossified" EU politics by launching an initiative of European progressives for EU elections next year.
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So if you're sick and tired of watching Cady Heron fall into a trash can again, or could redraw a replica of the school cafeteria map, or if you've memorized the whole Kenny G rap — then it might be time to move on.
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The Democratic pickups will give them power in those states over how to redraw the borders of congressional districts after the 2020 Census, which could in turn give Democrats a leg up in expanding their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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"At this very moment, Russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force, undermine democracy in sovereign nations, and divide the free nations of Europe, one against another," Pence said at a press conference, alluding to the Russian annexation of Crimea.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Refiners from the Midwest United States are fighting for access to a vital Pennsylvania pipeline – a move that could cripple their East Coast competitors and redraw the map for international flows of crude and fuel into coveted coastal markets.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he would not waste too much of his time on Brexit and would instead seek to redraw the map of "ossified" EU politics by launching an initiative of European progressives for EU elections next year.
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In Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court made a mid-year decision to redraw the state's congressional district lines, Democrats look likely to pick up four seats -- the open 5th, 26th and 21988th districts around Philadelphia, and the 29th District, where Democratic Rep.
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However, Maryland has the only effective Democratic gerrymander in the country (the ones in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Arkansas have a minimal net impact on the partisan composition of their delegations) and a suit to redraw the lines is pending before the Supreme Court.
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In North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere, they used the 22010 census and their power in state legislatures to redraw district lines and ensure themselves almost two-thirds of the congressional seats from these otherwise competitive, closely contested swing states.
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The problem for gerrymandering lawmakers is that the predominant consideration of race triggers "strict scrutiny," in which they have to prove they have a compelling interest — through, for example, the Voting Rights Act considerations noted above — to redraw the districts how they want.
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A federal appellate court ruled against a Republican map in Texas, finding that it discriminated against minority voters, but the Supreme Court declined to force the state to redraw its districts before the 2018 elections, and is expected to hear an appeal.
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Beginning in the 573s, the Supreme Court ruled that legislators can't carve up maps to intentionally diminish the power of black voters, and in the 257s, Congress amended the Voting Rights Act to make states redraw maps if they have a discriminatory effect.
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An early sign of the ability of immigrants and urban dwellers to redraw the political map came in 2007 when Chinese and Indian Australians helped defeat the Liberal Prime Minister John Howard in his own seat of Bennelong, in Sydney's affluent northwest.
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Those seeking to stick with the challenged map are hoping the Supreme Court will act before a Friday deadline that a three-judge federal court panel set for the Legislature to redraw the lines because race was improperly used as a factor.
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Lessig ends by spotlighting a more recent model, closer to home, in which a 20-something political neophyte named Katie Fahey started a grass-roots group in Michigan to create a citizens commission to redraw Michigan's state legislative and congressional districts in 2021.
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And after Republicans won control of both legislative houses in 2010 — the first time in 136 years, part of white Southerners' broader shift away from the Democratic Party — lawmakers tried to redraw state district maps to what critics called the Republicans' lopsided favor.
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As part of agreeing to hear the case, the five conservatives on the Supreme Court (John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Anthony Kennedy) stayed the District Court ruling, effectively removing the near-term requirement that Wisconsin redraw its map.
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Lawmakers were scrambling to figure out how to redraw their congressional districts in the wake of the ruling, and Lewis went on the record to be clear that the maps they were drawing were meant to disadvantage Democrats — not voters of color.
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All state lawmakers can do in the meantime is continue to push for bipartisan redistricting reform, and Democratic lawmakers say they need to resist the temptation to screw over Republicans if they get back in power in time to redraw the maps.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ESKİŞEHIR, Turkey — Turkey's first purpose-built modern art museum has opened in a college town hours from the country's biggest city of Istanbul, an endeavor to redraw the boundaries of the art scene and embrace the long-snubbed provinces.
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NEW YORK, June 143 (Reuters) - Refiners from the Midwest United States are fighting for access to a vital Pennsylvania pipeline – a move that could cripple their East Coast competitors and redraw the map for international flows of crude and fuel into coveted coastal markets.
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In the meantime, the legislature must quickly redraw the First and 12th districts, which a three-judge panel of the lower court said had been unconstitutionally gerrymandered after the 2010 census to pack African-American voters together so their political power would be diluted.
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It would entail the U.K. (and Northern Ireland) maintaining a close relationship with the EU potentially indefinitely, as part of a customs union, and Brexiteers in the government want to renegotiate that although the EU has shown no willingness to redraw the deal or backstop.
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The group has a two-pronged strategy aimed at getting Democrats elected so that they're in position to redraw the maps in 220006, while simultaneously pushing legal challenges to the existing GOP-friendly maps that Republicans put together following the 2202 Tea Party wave.
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BUDAPEST, March 10 (Reuters) - Hungary will need to redraw its 2020 and 2021 budgets and launch large-scale targeted measures to aid the country's economic sectors most hit by the impacts from the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday.
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American states, which were once praised by the great jurist Louis Brandeis as 'laboratories of democracy,' are in danger of becoming laboratories of authoritarianism as those in power rewrite electoral rules, redraw constituencies, and even rescind voting rights to ensure that they do not lose.
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The department's release said little about how it would address segregation in elementary schools, except by continuing to allow some schools to voluntarily set aside seats for low-income students and by considering diversity as a factor when the city has to redraw school zones.
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New York City's Education Department said on Wednesday that it would proceed with a fiercely contested plan to redraw elementary school zones on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an effort to reduce overcrowding while increasing racial and economic integration at three schools.
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What looks to outsiders like nihilism is the opposite to many young Islamic State converts: They are genuinely thrilled to be taking part in a venture that aims to redraw the map and reverse the moral polarities of what they see as a fallen world.
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In North Carolina, after a panel of three judges ruled unanimously that the Republican gerrymander of the state's legislative districts was partisan and illegal, Democrats have agreed to redraw the voting map in a way that—wait for it—maintains Republican control of the legislature.
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Worries about the euro zone economy have centred around Germany's export-oriented economy, which has had a rough few months and could be in the line of fire should U.S. President Donald Trump turn his attention to Europe in efforts to redraw trade relations with the world.
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Once states know how many people reside in the state, they then must undertake the process of redistricting, where they redraw their congressional (and state) lines to comply with the principle of one person, one vote: Each district must have roughly the same number of people.
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At the core of this hearing is whether partisan gerrymandering—a tactic used by political parties to redraw congressional voting districts so that the voting power within those districts is weighted toward their own party—was used to steal the 224 state elections in Wisconsin from Democrats.
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Obama's first attorney general announced on Monday that he had decided against a bid, saying he would instead focus on leading the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a Democratic-aligned group that aims to curb GOP gerrymandering when the states redraw legislative maps after the 2020 census.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — A polarizing president electrifies the opposition party going into his first midterm election, raising the party's hopes that it can reclaim governorships, ram through major policy change at the state level and redraw legislative lines in its favor for a decade to come.
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Almost immediately, Republicans struck back, stripping the new governor of many powers, attempting to redraw judicial districts, requiring judges to identify their party affiliation on ballots and reducing the size of the state's Court of Appeals, in order to keep Mr. Cooper from replacing retiring Republicans.
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But many other experts and voting rights advocates see in the citizenship question a longer-range goal: Knowing the number and location of noncitizens would allow states to exclude them from the population totals that are used after every census to redraw the nation's political maps.
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"We've already seen that these files have been instrumental in exposing lies around the effort to add a citizenship question to the census and around subverting a court's order to redraw gerrymandered lines," Kathay Feng, the national redistricting director for the group, said in an interview.
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The bill would exempt banks with less than $250 billion in assets - including BB&T, SunTrust Banks and American Express - from heightened regulatory scrutiny, in a move that could redraw the domestic U.S. banking landscape by reducing costs and unleashing a wave of mergers and acquisitions activity.
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Instead, they said, rather ambiguously, that the data were necessary "to inform a wide array of public-policy decisions" and to allow states to redraw their legislative lines using eligible voters, not total population—a radical change that would shift power in many states from Democrats to Republicans.
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It's a tremendous overhaul that saw Monotype redraw every single one of Helvetica's nearly 40,000 characters to be easier and more enjoyable to read, with a particular emphasis on going small: the kind of text you see a lot more of these days on your smartphone or pill bottle.
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Worries on the euro zone economy have centered around Germany's export-oriented economy, which has had a rough few months and could be in the line of fire should U.S. President Donald Trump turn his attention to Europe in his efforts to redraw trade relations with the world.
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Unless the justices affirm a lower-court's ruling that Wisconsin violated America's constitution when, in 2011, it redrew lines to entrench a Republican majority for years to come, they will give states a "free pass" to "effectively nullif[y] democracy" when legislatures redraw maps following the 2020 census.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold a lower court's ruling requiring North Carolina to immediately redraw state legislative districts found to have been be mapped out in a way that crammed black voters into a limited number of them to dilute their electoral clout.
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Both sides then agreed to redraw the deal and the Chinese firm will now hold 70-percent-stake in a joint venture with the state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), part of a plan to convert $6 billion of loans that Sri Lanka owes China into equity.
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Even as I make an earnest and passionate appeal to the far-flung voters of our district that, given the current circumstances, I would be their best and truest representative, I also promise that, if they elect me, I will seek to redraw our district at the next opportunity.
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To strip naked and exclaim, "Here's the real me, take a look!" would lead my new circle to redraw their lines — they would take back their compliments, sit at the table with six seats instead of eight, giggle in the back of the class when I asked a question.
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Both Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders remain among the best-positioned candidates in the primary election, with distinctive appeal to young people and other voters seeking a large-scale redraw of the political system — an overlapping agenda that drew roars of approval at the "First in the West" dinner.
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But the most significant task ahead for Mr. Perez will come in 2018, when Democrats face a daunting Senate map, a more favorable House landscape and 36 governor's races, many of which will help determine which party is best positioned to redraw legislative lines after the next census.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday blocked lower court rulings ordering Republican legislators in Michigan and Ohio to redraw U.S. congressional maps ahead of the 2020 elections, dealing a blow to Democrats who had argued that the electoral districts were intended to unlawfully diminish their political clout.
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He said a special master will be appointed "in short order" to help the court draw a remedial plan, which will be used if the court decides not to give North Carolina officials another chance to redraw the maps or if the maps they draw fail to remedy the constitutional violation.
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In the Maryland case, state Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) is appealing a district court ruling that requires the state to redraw its 2011 congressional redistricting plan before the 2020 election after a district court found state officials intentionally flipped control of the 6th Congressional District from Republicans to Democrats.
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If a big national news organization like the Washington Post or CNN didn't have any beats to start with, and they had to redraw the entire beat system from scratch for Trump in this moment right now, what would that system look like, if you threw out everything you started with?
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The push against King is an attempt to redraw a line effaced by Donald Trump's race-baiting, and since as you may have noticed Trump is still the president, it matters only as a possible marker for a post-Trump Republican future, not a defining statement for the G.O.P. today.
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The leaders will not name Trump in a statement due to be issued after their summit meeting, but the message will stand in clear contrast to the U.S. president, who has withdrawn from a trans-Pacific trade alliance and promised to redraw the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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But security researchers have found an unexpected feature of Android that can surreptitiously grant an app the permission to not merely reach outside its sandbox but fully redraw the phone's screen while another part of the operating system is running, tricking users into tapping on fake buttons that can have unexpected consequences.
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Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the department has filed legal briefs in support of states that are resisting court orders to rein in voter ID requirements, stop aggressive purges of voter rolls and redraw political boundaries that have unfairly diluted minority voting power — all practices that were opposed under President Obama's attorneys general.
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If the judges say Texas has to redraw these three districts, and the new ones result in the election of more Democrats in 2018, that could provide a real boost for the national Democratic Party's overall fate in the midterms—an election in which they have a fighting chance of taking back the House.
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The court is leaving it up to the Republican state legislature to redraw the maps, but it is setting specific guidelines for them to follow: The new maps must be redrawn by September 18 (within two weeks), lawmakers can't use data to try to draw a partisan advantage, and the redrawing process must be public.
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The summit timing, days after Trump left a trail of diplomatic wreckage as he exited the annual Group of Seven nations Saturday, cast further light on the extent to which he increasingly keeps his own counsel, eschewing the cautionary advice of aides and confident in his ability to single-handedly attempt to redraw the global order.
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But as long as we have single-member districts, and as long as Democrats concentrate in cities while Republicans live outside of the cities, any attempt to redraw districts to make them competitive would require awkwardly connecting slices of city to far-flung patches of country in ways that look even stranger and uglier than the current gerrymanders.
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In 2010, a wave of electoral victories at the state level gave Republicans the chance to redraw congressional districts to their advantage after the Census, which seven years later has translated into a structural advantage in the House of Representatives; Democrats have to win a lot more votes than Republicans in order to take back Congress's lower chamber.
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In an interview, Mr. Bennett said the activists had sketched out a plausible chain of events: Under the language they objected to, if a left-wing government were to gain power, it could redraw the Jerusalem map to create a new municipality in East Jerusalem — perhaps named "Al Quds," he said, the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
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Virginia's 2628th Congressional District used to be solidly red, but courts forced the state to redraw it shortly after Brat was elected in 28503 following a shocking GOP primary defeat of then-House Majority Leader Eric CantorEric Ivan CantorEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington GOP faces tough battle to become 'party of health care' 22019 crisis tests Boeing's clout in Washington MORE.
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The bill contains two key changes to how New Jersey would redraw its legislative districts in the next decade: First, it would increase the number of people on the bipartisan redistricting commission to 13, up from 11, and would allow lawmakers to nominate themselves to serve on the commission, a move that some saw as a way to strip power from Mr. Murphy.
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But it should be seen as a symptom of wider struggles: over the capacity of the likes of Mr Macron and Mr Salvini to redraw the party landscape, over the ability of their style of politics to usurp the old guard and over whether the next commission president will be a status-quo traditionalist, some hybrid of the established and insurgent styles, or a full-blown innovator.
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Amash, whose reelection prospects remain uncertain because Michigan will redraw its districts ahead of the 2020 election, has even refused to rule out the possibility that he will run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, suggesting that his obvious break with the Republican Party is simply part of a broader strategy to build his personal brand and to shore up his future political prospects.
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"As you all know, Russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force and, here in the Western Balkans, Russia has worked to destabilize the region, undermine democracies and divide you from each other and from the rest of Europe," Pence told a summit attended by leaders of NATO members Montenegro, Croatia, Albania and Slovenia, as well as Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo.
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One of the differences between PC-connected VR headsets and standalone VR headsets is that the former can push faster refresh rates—80Hz in the case of the latest Oculus Rift S.Being able to redraw the screen more quickly is now becoming more important for phones and tablets too, with the rise of sophisticated, detailed mobile games and accessories like the Apple Pencil (the faster the display updates, the quicker your digital ink appears).
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The nonprofit that initially took credit for 'launching' the Iowa caucus app developer quietly changed its website to distance itself from the controversial techPete Buttigieg is backtracking his victory speech from Iowa, noting that he doesn't have any official numbers but that it's 'extraordinary' that his campaign made it this farFrom the wealthy to Wall Street, here's how the 2020 Democrats would redraw the US tax code with their plansPete Buttigieg is a trailblazing presidential candidate.
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January 227 Senate passes FISA Section 228 reauthorization House lawmakers unveil legislation to overhaul harassment on Capitol Hill Pelosi: GOP bill like a 'bowl of doggy doo' Supreme Court blocks court order to redraw North Carolina congressional districts WSJ: Cohen paid porn star through private LLC created just weeks before election The Journal takes the Stormy story even further -- reporting that Trump's personal lawyer sent the six-figure donation to Daniels from an LLC he established for the purpose.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE was cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation was opened into his controversial decision to redraw the boundaries of a Utah national monument around a former lawmaker's property.
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