[EL] Renewed Republican Redistricting Revenge

[Edward Still]

In about 2003, the AZ IRC ran out of money (or maybe it was low on funds)
to defend against two consolidated suits against its Legislative and
Congressional plans. I don't remember whether is was just incompetence or
malice on the part of the Legislature.

I was one of the counsel for the plaintiffs against the Congressional case.
The trial was not postponed, but the lack of funds did interfere with
documentary disclosures by the Commission.

Ed

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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>
> “Renewed Republican Redistricting Revenge!               Arizona
> Legislature Using Budgetary Power To Possibly Limit Map Defense”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82725>
> Posted on May 12, 2016 5:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82725> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Arizona’s Politics
> <http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/renewed-republican-redistricting.html>
> :
>
> In the wake of two GOP defeats at the U.S. Supreme Court, Republicans at
> the Arizona Legislature are using their budgetary powers to sweep $695,000
> from the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (“AIRC”).  The funds
> were to be used in defending a state court action brought by key Republican
> lawmakers (and others) as that case heads towards trial next year.
> Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a new budget <http://bit.ly/27bt5Lq> into
> law yesterday. It contains $1.1M for the entire Independent Redistricting
> Commission budget. That amount is not enough to cover the expected legal
> expenses for the *Leach v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission* case,
> which has already cost taxpayers $1.5M.
>
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