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This raises profound questions about how the next redistricting will be conducted, including whether the officials who draw congressional and legislative maps and decide districts for city councils and county commissions draw districts that are fair to all voters. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
As Democrats have decried Republican efforts to restrict voting rights, lawmakers have also quietly chipped away at the citizen-driven referendum process in statehouses across the country. [read post]
25 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
How Democrats Are ‘Unilaterally Disarming’ in the Redistricting Wars Politico – Ally Mutnick | Published: 6/21/2021 In key states over the past decade, Democrats have gained control of Legislatures and governorships that have long been in charge of drawing new election maps, only to cede that authority, often to independent commissions tasked with drawing political boundaries free of partisan interference. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 5:27 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Cherokee Nation Election Commission (Tribal Elections)Morales v. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 2:00 pm by Unknown
Cherokee Nation Election Commission (Tribal Elections) Morales v. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 11:58 am by Samantha Osaki
Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Redistricting Act into law, empowering a bipartisan Citizens Redistricting Committee to propose fair electoral maps for the state. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
An unusual bipartisan combination of members of the commission voted against pursuing the complaint. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
But this year, a confluence of forces – including the census delays, pending federal legislation about redistricting, and major U.S. [read post]
3 May 2021, 11:56 am by Tom Smith
California’s 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, divided equally among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, is prohibited from drawing maps that benefit or disadvantage any particular politician. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The full partisan effect of the shifts will not be known for months, as states must sift through population data that will be released later this year to draw new congressional district lines, resulting in hundreds of decisions by state lawmakers and independent commissions about the partisan makeup of each individual district. [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The agency has promised congressional apportionment data by the end of April, with redistricting data coming as late as the end of September. [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal ‘A Complete Ripoff’: Campaign finance experts puzzled and stunned by Trump camp’s reported ‘money bomb’ ploy MSN – Grace Panetta (Business Insider) | Published: 4/6/2021 Some donors who gave a few hundred dollars to former President Trump’s reelection campaign were shocked to see thousands drained from their accounts. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Business Groups Rethinking Value of In-Person Lobbying The Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 3/31/2021 Before the pandemic, business groups held fly-ins that allowed for in-person meetings with members of Congress and agency officials. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But the schedules for the president and vice president are not posted online, the White House comment line is shut down, and there are no citizen petitions on the White House’s website. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 2:06 pm by Editorial Advisory Board
Larry Hogan created the Maryland Citizen Redistricting Commission to prepare plans for the necessary redistricting of Maryland’s state legislative and congressional districts as a consequence of the 2020 Census. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 9:05 pm by Alana Sheppard
FLASHBACK FRIDAY In an essay in The Regulatory Review, Elizabeth Golberg, former director at the European Commission, argued that the European Commission’s “one [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal After Capitol Riot, Desperate Families Turn to Groups That ‘Deprogram’ Extremists MSN – Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles (Washington Post) | Published: 2/5/2021 There is a surge of desperate families and friends calling organizations that aim to deradicalize and “deprogram” extremists across the ideological spectrum. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
It also said it will only accept gifts from U.S. citizens, lawfully admitted permanent residents, and American corporate entities and associations. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Trump is currently able to tweet with less risk, compared with private citizens, of having tweets taken down or his account suspended. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 1:42 pm by Sonia Gill
Manufactured claims of fraud to explain away Trump’s loss of the popular vote in the 2016 election led to the creation of a sham commission that eventually disbanded after failing to provide any factual evidence to support Trump’s preposterous statements that millions of people had voted illegally. [read post]