Word: redrawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Brett Donham, chairman of CCA's housing and land use committee, said last week, "Harvard hasn't done its homework. It hasn't shown a real need to redraw the boundaries, a need to purchase new land or whether it really has the means to build new dormitories...
...decision of which Warren was most proud was Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which extended the one-man, one-vote principle. His majority opinion on Reynolds, which forced nearly every state to redraw its electoral boundaries, showed Warren at his most eloquent: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests . . . A nation once primarily rural in character becomes predominantly urban. But the basic principle of representative government remains, and must remain, unchanged-the weight of a citizen's vote cannot be made to depend on where he lives...
Deeply embarrassed, federal prosecutors confessed that the indictment had been hastily drafted; because of the case's complexity, the feds finished preparing their charges only four days before the statute of limitations was due to run out. The prosecutors vowed to redraw and resubmit the charges in as little as three weeks, though they have six months. "The matter is going back to the grand jury because we feel we have a case," said U.S. Attorney V. De Voe Heaton. Added another federal prosecutor: "This thing isn't dead yet, not by a long shot...