When state lawmakers redraw the boundaries of legislative districts using the results of this year's census, the law could affect how these districts are formed.
In a 2006 case concerning the boundaries of legislative districts in Texas, Roberts wrote a separate opinion, which stated, in unusually direct terms, that he found any consideration of race by government distasteful.
But dramas between incumbents like Mr. Kerns and Mr. Buyer will play out around the country as states adjust to new census data by refashioning the boundaries of legislative districts before the 2002 elections.
The administration determined, however, that this approach was outside the boundaries of the legislative text — a decision described by The Times's health reporter as a "cramped reading of the law" but by others as simply following it.
No matter where the boundaries of their legislative districts are, voters should be inspired to choose our candidates.
Lately, he's been devoting a lot of time and effort to something called New York Uprising, an effort to force the state legislature to adopt a non-partisan method of drawing the boundaries for legislative districts.
In the hopper are bills to limit increases in the property tax, to legalize gay marriage, to redraw the boundaries of congressional and legislative lines districts, and to require the disclosure of legislators' clients and earnings in addition to their state salaries.
During Ms. Brill's tenure, the main issues were campaign finance reform, affordable housing, property revaluation, establishment of the county's Human Rights Commission, redistricting of legislative boundaries and budget reform.
Control of the Senate also affects the 10-year redrawing of legislative boundaries — a task over which Republicans, under the current alignment, hold significant authority.
This gave North Carolina, with 18,000 troops and diplomats overseas, an extra House seat after the 2000 census, to the chagrin of Utah, deemed to have 856 fewer inhabitants despite its thousands of Mormon missionaries abroad.Most of the injustices, though, occur within states in the post-census redrawing of legislative boundaries to take account of population changes.
We support the creation of an independent, bipartisan commission for the redistricting of legislative boundaries.
