Arizona redistricting trial awaits ruling
The Arizona Capitol Times carries this short article on the case I have been in for the past 5 weeks. It quotes my co-counsel Dave Braun.
Dave also had a letter in Friday's Arizona Republic contradicting an earlier statement by Congressman Ed Pastor. Here is an excerpt:
Congressman Ed Pastor is wrong.In Sunday's Republic he is quoted claiming that four of the eight new Arizona congressional districts are politically competitive.
Yet in the current redistricting trial, the commission charged with creating the districts actually admitted that only one of the eight is competitive. Six of the eight were given political party registration advantages of 17 percent or more. That includes three districts that were granted extraordinary registration edges of 23 percent, 24 percent and even 25 percent!