Miami commissioners to vote on agreement ending redistricting saga with new map
Three weeks after a federal judge struck down Miami’s city commission map, ruling it was unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered, the groups that sued the city over its redistricting announced Wednesday that they’ve reached an “expected final agreement” with city officials to implement new boundaries and end the legal saga once and for all.
After appeals court loss, plaintiffs take Miami redistricting battle to Supreme Court
After being dealt a legal blow Friday in their efforts to keep a “racially gerrymandered” electoral map from being used in this November’s Miami city commission election, plaintiffs suing the city are taking their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Will new Miami electoral map force Carollo out? City’s redistricting battle not over
Fresh off the heels of a court order stating Miami city commissioners’ second try at redrawing their electoral map failed to remedy “unconstitutional” racial gerrymandering issues, there are now questions over whether an incumbent commissioner will have to move or relinquish his seat.
Court order: Miami ‘gerrymandered’ its commission map again, judge chooses new one
In response to a lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Sunday that the city of Miami commissioners’ proposed district map, purportedly drawn to address issues of racial gerrymandering present in the current boundaries, failed to make significant enough changes to fix the problems he originally identified.
South Dakota's AG charged with 3 misdemeanors in fatal crash
Ravnsborg, South Dakotas Republican attorney general, has been charged with misdemeanor careless driving after he struck and killed a man with his car, authorities said Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Ad“At best, his conduct was negligent, which is insufficient to bring criminal charges in South Dakota," Beadle County State's Attorney Michael Moore, who helped handle the case, said. He called South Dakota's manslaughter law “weak” and that he expected his family to take civil action against Ravnsborg. Moore, the state's attorney, said the misdemeanor charges were the “right decision” but that he didn't feel good about it. A crash reconstruction expert from Wyoming and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation assisted the South Dakota Highway Patrol in the investigation.
Ahead of the election, a landslide of documentaries
This combination photo shows poster art for political documentaries, from left, "All In: The Fight for Democracy," "Boys State," "537 Votes," "Slay the Dragon," and "The Fight." The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day. (Amazon, from left, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Pictures via AP)NEW YORK – The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. In a presidential election of enormous stakes, filmmakers have rushed to finish their films before Election Day, to try to inform, sway and entertain the electorate.