{"id":4400,"date":"2011-12-05T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:00:41","slug":"latfor-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/12\/05\/latfor-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Paging Senator Nozzolio&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Vielkind writes in the <i>Albany Times Union<\/i>&#8216;s Capital Confidential Blog that New York&#8217;s redistricting task force has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/93526\/amid-stalemate-latfor-delays-hearing\/\">postponed today&#8217;s meeting<\/a> about implementing the <a href=\"\/NYS_A9710-D.html\">law<\/a> ending prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly did their reallocation months ago and was happy with their work, and, while it looked to me like the Senate was either stalling or planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/29\/opinion\/oh-is-that-the-redistricting-law.html\">ignore the law<\/a>,  Senator Nozzolio repeatedly <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/76987\/read-our-lips-latfor-will-count-prisoners-at-home\/\">told the press<\/a> that, &#8220;the law will be complied with, whatever that law is. Impressions to the contrary are simply not accurate.&#8221; In fact, some of his quotes appeared a little <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.democratandchronicle.com\/voteup\/2011\/08\/04\/nozzolio-following-prison-count-law-was-always-the-plan\/\">testy<\/a> regarding the <a href=\"\/news\/2011\/07\/27\/letter-to-latfor\/\">letter<\/a> that the Prison Policy Initiative and other civil rights groups sent urging the redistricting task force to &#8212; until told otherwise by a judge &#8212; follow the law.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine what could be the hold up now. Did something happen?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s right. On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Eugene Devine <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/12\/02\/ny-victory\/\">threw out<\/a> the <a href=\"\/little\"><i>Little v. LATFOR<\/i><\/a> case the Republicans filed to overturn the law ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge rejects Senators&#8217; lawsuit, says law ending prison-based gerrymandering must stand. Legislature further postpones implementation of law.  Coincidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}