Torchinsky hiring comes under fire in redistricting hearing at Statehouse
As a group of about two dozen lawmakers filed into the Indiana House chamber Wednesday afternoon, the script appeared familiar. From Goshen to Sellersburg and six Ivy Tech campuses in between, each of the eight previous public hearings on the 2021 redistricting had played out wit “...”
As lawmakers prepare for final hearing, fair-redistricting advocates rally outside Statehouse
In the final hours before the last of nine public hearings on the upcoming redistricting process, a group of about 80 rallied outside the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday to renew their push for a transparent and nonpartisan redrawing of the state’s congressional and legislativ “...”
Reports: D.C. attorney hired for “legal advice” and help with potential litigation over redistricting
The Indiana House Republican leadership hired the Washington, D.C. firm of attorney Jason Torchinsky (above) in April “to provide legal advice regarding matters related to redistricting and elections,” noting that as his client they “may in the future participat “...”
Message from Elkhart County to legislators: Fair redistricting is the best way to restore voters’ faith
Saturday afternoon’s legislative hearing on redistricting in Elkhart County included more than a few lessons in history — from the origins of gerrymandering two centuries ago to its more sophisticated implementation in the 21st century. As in the seven other hearings “...”
Southern Indiana residents call for compact, competitive districts
Sellersburg, Ind. — Southern Indiana residents told legislators Saturday that they’ve lived with gerrymandered election districts for the past 10 years and they’ve had enough. In a hearing at Ivy Tech Sellersburg, they called for districts that are compact, competitive “...”
Evansville audience warns legislators against the effects of gerrymandering
As a group of Indiana legislators began a second day of public hearings Saturday on the upcoming redistricting process, they heard testimony from an Evansville audience that sounded a lot like the testimony that they had heard in other Indiana cities on Friday. One speaker after “...”
At Fort Wayne redistricting hearing, audience warns against a replay of 2011
More than 30 northeast Indiana residents offered their thoughts on redistricting Aug. 7 before a panel of state legislators in Fort Wayne. The general message for lawmakers: You can draw better districts than you did in 2011. Karen Nesius Roeger told the joint hearing of the Indi “...”
The redistricting hearing was in Porter County — but public testimony focused on Lake
When Indiana’s legislative leaders were choosing sites for their nine public hearings on redistricting, they opted against Lake County, scheduling a Friday afternoon hearing instead in adjacent if less populous Porter County. But since the hearing didn’t go to Lake Co “...”
Democrat tells Columbus audience that redistricting hearing offers “the illusion of transparency”
The Indiana state legislators who will spearhead the state’s upcoming redistricting process were front and center at a hearing in Columbus on Friday — but it was an 87-year-old former mayor of nearby Bloomington who drew some of the biggest applause. Tomilea Allison ( “...”
Lawmakers come to Lafayette to listen, voters ask if rigged redistricting is in the cards, anyway
Lafayette, Ind. — If there was much trust in the room that the Indiana General Assembly’s Republican supermajority would resist a temptation to redraw congressional and state legislative maps to guarantee dominance for another decade, it didn’t show Friday. At Lafayette “...”