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7 Apr 2011, 12:27 pm by Steve Hall
Cannon has said he wants to speed along the consideration of death penalty challenges and provide more accountability to citizens. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 8:09 pm by Randy Riddle
From the Contra Costa Times: "The California Citizens Redistricting Commission is withholding final signature on a contract with its newly hired federal voting rights lawyers after staff discovered undisclosed political activities. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 7:59 am by Randy Riddle
From the Long Beach Press-Telegram: "It's called the Citizens Redistricting Commission for good reason. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 12:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
A broad-based coalition of 30 civic organizations co-chaired by nine influential civic leaders, ReShapeNY joined Citizens Union in calling for the passage of legislation that would change the current rigged system of drawing lines where politicians choose their voters and replace it with a citizens redistricting commission. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:58 pm by Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
If I'm remembering the arcana of the citizen commission, I believe any plan would have to be approved by a majority of Republicans (and a majority of Democrats,... [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 6:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The Citizen Re-Organization Empowerment Grants will provide up to $100,000 to cover all or part of the costs of merger and dissolutions studies. [read post]
18 Dec 2010, 2:36 pm by Marcia Oddi
Following up on this ILB entry from yesterday, Mary Beth Schneider of the Indianapolis Star reports today on yesterday's redistricting... [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 8:31 am by Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
The Rose Institute and Target Book will sponsor this event Dec. 8.... [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 5:23 pm by froomkin@law.tm
Supporters argue, much more convincingly, that too many localities are allowing too much development against the wishes of local citizens because developers are major campaign contributors. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 2:19 pm by Jonathan Zasloff
Here's the skinny: In California, unlike in most other states, redistricting of state legislative seats is done not by the Legislature itself but rather by an independent citizens' commission. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
  Her plans include promoting less restrictive ballot access, establishing an independent redistricting commission, establishing statewide campaign finance, ending patronage based hiring at the Board of Elections, and passing a law prohibiting its employees from participating in campaigns. [read post]
25 May 2010, 12:03 pm
We must remove legislative redistricting from partisan elected politicians and place it in the hands of an independent commission that works only for the people. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 11:12 am by Lyle Denniston
Federal Election Commission, et al. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 10:03 am by Lyle Denniston
Federal Election Commission, expanding constitutional protection for some forms of campaign spending by non-party groups. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 3:00 pm
Secretary Cortes-Vazquez served on the New York Redistricting Commission in 2003, and on the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board from 2001-2003. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 7:16 am
  But Canada's experience tells us that this probably ain't the way to do it (and California's new Prop 11 Citizens' Redistricting Commission, for all its faults, isn't following Canada's lead here). [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 10:43 am
There was a campaign finance case a couple of years ago [called Federal Election Commission v. [read post]