Redistricting

Organizational Meetings For The New Democratic Legislative District Committees – Pima County

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H/T LD 10 Legislative District 10 Committee. Organizational meetings for the new Democratic legislative district committees Arizona law provides that after redistricting creates new legislative districts, the party committees for the new legislative districts are formed at organizational meetings for each new LD. At these meetings the chair, two vice chairs, a secretary and a treasurer are elected … Read more

The Radical Republicans On SCOTUS Signal That Racial Gerrymandering To Disenfranchise Black Voters Is OK By Them

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In Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have no jurisdiction to review partisan gerrymandering cases, greenlighting the extreme gerrymandering that we have seen since the 2020 Census. But the court noted that federal courts do have jurisdiction to review racial gerrymamdering cases. Supreme … Read more

Retrospective on AIRC Measures and Opportunistic Definitions

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Redistricting is done for another decade. Maybe. There will be litigation, and changes could come, but the primary design of Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) is complete. But before this AIRC’s work fades from our memory, we should consider what could be improved for the future. Here, I’ll comment on one aspect of the process: … Read more

Nationwide, Redistricting Is Looking Like A Wash

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Update to Arizona Independent (sic) Redistricting Commission Brazenly Hijacked By Partisan Republicans (excerpt): Eric Levitz writes at New York magazine, Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting: The Democratic House majority was supposed to die in redistricting. For months now, pundits and political forecasters have predicted that Republicans could win back the House next year … Read more

Redistricting is All Over. Except for the Vote. And the Lawsuits.

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The Arizona voters approved a promise made by Prop. 106. The 2000 Prop. 106 promised fair and competitive districts to be drawn by members of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC). There are serious flaws in the construction of the Commission and the appointment process. That will have to be an article for another day. … Read more