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"I want to emphasize that the larger picture here is important – because in an election year we faced the prospect of a federal court-drawn map that placed in jeopardy the speaker of the House ...
Where were they during the days of the Weimar Republic, when they might have ... accept the necessity of party activity and partisan elections. But a Confessing Church would acknowledge the ...
A gerrymander can make it impossible for a minority party to achieve the majority, even if it receives the most votes in an election. Conversely, distorted maps may completely exclude a particular ...
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map. By Abbie VanSickle ...
The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a high-stakes dispute over the Voting Rights Act and an election map with two ...
Justice Samuel Alito Jr. asked Aguiñaga about whether the state could defend its current map from an equal protection challenge even if the underlying Voting Rights Act decision was "plainly wrong." ...
We spent the next day touring Berlin. First, we saw the Reichstag building, which was used for parliament by the German Empire and the Weimar Republic before being burned by the Nazis in 1933.
Two months before a scheduled trial, a coalition of voting rights groups is withdrawing from a long-running challenge to the political maps Texas drew after the 2020 U.S. census, which the groups ...
Candidate lists are now locked in, so let’s see who’s running and where in the federal election. We’ve mapped out the major candidates in all seven ridings across Newfoundland and Labrador. And with ...
To paraphrase comedian comedian George Carlin, who made a strong and humorous case for never voting: If you vote and elect incompetent ... Imperfect, but we don’t wind up with pizza parliaments like ...
The county will hire a conservative law firm to study its population and, potentially, draw a new election map. Republicans acknowledged they aim to cement their control of county politics ...