A week ahead of schedule, the Alaska Supreme Court has reached a decision in the legal battle over the state’s redistricting plan and the Alaska Redistricting Board will have to head back to the drawing board.
The legislation would only require the state divest $7 million of an estimated $333 million of investments in Russia. Legislators said it was unconscionable.
“There was no attempt to override Ballot Measure 2,” Dunleavy said about his efforts to lobby the Legislature to overturn a significant piece of Ballot Measure 2.
The decision would not only impact the next decades of legislative districts but how maps are drawn going forward as well as the public’s involvement.
He was seeking his 26th term in Congress. State law requires a special election be held between 60 and 90 days from now.
The case will decide whether the maps produced by the Alaska Redistricting Board should stand for the next decade, whether they should be redrawn to Matthews’ standards or whether they should be redrawn by a whole different set of standards missed by the lower court.
The vote was 21-18 with every single non-majority Republican voting against the measure. Their opposition, combined with reluctance in the Senate, likely means that campaign contribution limits are doomed for the 2022 elections. That’s good news for Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who has already voiced support for unlimited contributions and has reportedly been soliciting large contributions.
ction marks the latest turn in the Legislature’s efforts to get to the bottom of the firing, which has been marked by allegations that Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration orchestrated the firing in order to install more politically friendly leadership of the state fund.
Supporters of the legislation said the goal isn’t to force everyone to change their minds about people of color, but to at least stop discrimination at schools and the workplace.
Without legislative direction, state officials said they would likely hold onto Russian investments in the hopes that they rebound and recapture their previous value.