GOP legislators plea in court: Let us draw the lines

districtsBy Mary Jo Pitzl |The Republic | azcentral.com

The Legislature’s Republican leadership is asking a federal court to toss out the congressional districts created by an independent panel and let them do the drawing in time for this summer’s primary election.

In arguments Friday before a panel of three federal judges, lawyers for the Legislature said only state lawmakers have the authority to draw the boundaries for Arizona’s nine congressional districts.

But attorneys for the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission say voters gave that duty to the commission when they approved a ballot measure in 2000. Proposition 106 took the line-drawing power away from lawmakers and placed it in the hands of a five-member panel.

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