[EL] Renewed Republican Redistricting Revenge

[Scarberry, Mark]

For some reason this is reminiscent of the refusal of state officials (e.g., the state attorney general) to defend an initiative, together with either limited resources of the initiative’s sponsors or, more perniciously, a refusal to give the initiative’s sponsors standing to defend it.

Mark

Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law



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It is definitely politics now, Ed, and probably was in ‘03, too!  I’d love to supplement the article with your experience, if you’d email me off the discussion board.  Thanks—Paul

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From: Edward Still<mailto:still at votelaw.com>
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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<mailto: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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