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June 9, 2006

Supreme Court upholds redistricting plan

PROVIDENCE -- The Rhode Island Supreme Court today upheld a lower court's ruling that the General Assembly's 2002 redistricting plan is legal.

Rhode Island voters approved amendments to the state constitution more than a decade ago that eliminated 37 lawmakers from the General Assembly. Afterward, lawmakers established a commission that created new legislative districts.

Bristol voters and town officials filed a lawsuit, saying their town was carved into parts of three separate Senate districts. Bristol voters weren't in the majority in any of those districts.

The Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiffs didn't prove that lawmakers created the districts without reason or for pure political gain. The judges say lawmakers should have broad discretion in redistricting.

-- The Associated Press

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