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...effect," he said, "was to redraw decision-making authority over racial matters-and only over racial matters-in such a way as to place comparative burdens on minorities...
...large in statewide contests. Even in the simplest cases, where one party dominates a state, legislative reapportionment is proving to be a major headache. In Iowa, where the Republicans control both houses and the Governor's mansion, the state legislature ruled that a nonpartisan commission redraw the districts with the help of a computer. The embarrassing result: two Republican incumbents were dumped into the same district. "It must have been a Democratic computer," said an aide to Governor Robert Ray. The legislature quickly ignored the computer and decided to redraft its own plan so that none of the state...
Committee members appear more likely to support the redistricting portion of Lannon's plan, which would redraw school district lines in an attempt to mix white and minority students more evenly in the Cambridge elementary schools...
Before leaving the Justice Department, Nesson also worked on the Alabama reapportionment cases, which involved stopping attempts to redraw boundary lines of cities so as to exclude the homes of most black residents, thus making them ineligible in city elections...
...week's end Salant told TIME: "I'm going to re-examine the whole question and see if I can't redraw the line to get things more precisely back to the standards applied to Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower. I may have slipped here. The last thing in the world I want to do is add to the dangers of having newsworthy people not sit still for interviews in hard-news situations. If I added to that, I'm damned sorry...