As expected, Republicans on Monday asked a federal court to intervene in the dispute over redistricting of state House seats.<\/p>\n
From The Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cGOP lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of several voters asking a federal court in Albuquerque to appoint a three judge panel to draw district boundaries for the 70-member House. The voters include two Albuquerque-area Republicans who intend to run for House seats once new districts are established.<\/p>\n \u201cThe lawsuit contends the state Supreme Court acted improperly last week in ordering retired state District Court Judge James Hall to revamp a redistricting plan he had approved. Democrats had challenged Hall\u2019s plan, saying it could help Republicans pick up House seats in future elections. Hall adopted a House plan that largely mirrored district configurations recommended by the governor and other GOP officials.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire complaint by visiting Capitol Report New Mexico<\/a>. It was filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n As NMPolitics.net reported Monday<\/a>, when Hall approved Gov.\u00a0Susana Martinez\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0proposal for redistricting state House seats in January, he decided that, while her plan\u00a0shifted things to the right<\/a>, it did so less than the Democrats\u2019 plan shifted things to the left.<\/p>\n So Hall chose the less-partisan plan \u2013 and one he deemed within acceptable limits.<\/p>\n In a 4-1 decision, the Supreme Court last week sent Hall back to the drawing board. Justices effectively told Hall that, rather than choosing the least partisan plan, he should draw his own, non-partisan map of state House districts.<\/p>\n The justices in the majority directed Hall to create a \u201cpartisan neutral\u201d map by Feb. 27.<\/p>\n On Monday, Hall appointed Albuquerque pollster and consultant Brian Sanderoff, who lawmakers employed to help draw their redistricting proposals earlier in the process, to help the judge draw a new state House map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As expected, Republicans on Monday asked a federal court to intervene in the dispute over redistricting of state House seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,207,107],"class_list":["post-36704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-redistricting","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}