Benson files lawsuit to delay redistricting deadline
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and last updated 2021-04-21 08:39:15-04
LANSING, Mich. â Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court to ensure the public can provide feedback on the new voting district maps that will be drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
The suit was filed jointly with the organization and seeks a new deadline for finalization of the maps due to the delay in provision of census data from the federal government, according to a news release Wednesday.
âOur state constitution guarantees the people of Michigan 45 days to review and provide comment on the maps created by the independent commission, and this time must be granted them despite the delay by the U.S. Census Bureau,â Benson said. âWe launched this historic commission in a manner that was citizen-led and transparent and voters across the state and across the political sp
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A video obtained by Fox News shows the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission rejecting a request to start their meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance, with some members calling the pledge “divisive” and “contentious.”
The first item of business on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission’s docket Thursday was a request by Commissioner Doug Clark to recite the Pledge of Allegiance prior to the group’s meetings to decide how both state and federal congressional districts would look in the state.
During the Zoom meeting, Commissioner Rebecca Sztetla said that when she traveled to other groups’ meetings, it was a “mixed bag” of whether they recited the pledge or not and that she doesn’t “see how that adds anything to the work of the commission.”