Redistricting Forces Incumbents to Face Off
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 7th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
Redistricting Forces Incumbents to Face Off
“With 18 states done or almost done with the once-a-decade process of redrawing congressional district lines, the likelihood is strong that more sitting House members will be forced into face-offs than in the past 30 years,” according to Bloomberg.
“In the maps drawn so far, at least 13 districts in California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan and North Carolina are being reshaped in a way that put the homes of two incumbents into the same territory. Some of those House members have decided to run for another seat and others have yet to say whether they’ll run at all. Two more such pairings are expected but not yet set in Massachusetts and New Jersey, and more are probable in the 25 states that aren’t far along in the remapping process, including Pennsylvania and Ohio.”
Edwards Seeks Case’s Dismissal
Lawyers for John Edwards filed “a barrage of court documents” asking a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, the Raleigh News and Observer reports.
“In hundreds of pages, the attorneys contend the charges against Edwards are unconstitutionally vague, that no crime occurred and even if one had, the government did not give him a ‘fair warning’ that his conduct would violate campaign finance laws.”