Alaska Supreme Court explains ruling against redistricting board’s alleged gerrymandering | #alaska | #politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Alaska Supreme Court is showing its might in efforts to keep partisan politics out of the redistricting process. For the second time in a little more than a year, the highest court in Alaska concluded that proposed redistricting maps in Eagle River and South Anchorage are unconstitutional, ruling Friday that […]
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From redistricting lawsuits to a Capitol COVID outbreak | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- October 11, 2022
- Alaska Redistricting Board
- Anchorage Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews
- Cantwell
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- economy
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- ivy spohnholz
- Louise Stutes
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A masked woman waits in the stairwell of the Capitol Building on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO) Alaska’s political scene has been busy. The state Supreme court ruled on redistricting last week, the House plans to take up the budget in a few days — and there’s yet another […]
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Alaska Supreme Court rules Senate map for Anchorage unconstitutional and ‘political gerrymander’ | #alaska | #politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that a map of state Senate districts for Anchorage is unconstitutional and that it constitutes “political gerrymander,” and has upheld a lower court’s ruling that it must be redrawn. According to a ruling published Friday, the boundaries for Senate District K set by the Alaska […]
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