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The state says it is studying these questions and looking carefully at whether it needs to minimize or mitigate impacts.

The goal is simple: minimize repeated trips to the cutting board and maintain a sense of flow.

“The fact that these dumbfounding transfers in the middle of the night cause chaos, confusion, and minimizes access to legal representation does not seem to bother them one bit,” he said in a statement.

Spearheaded by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the measure sought to bring balance to legislative races by taking redistricting away from lawmakers, who tended to draw the state’s political lines to suit their interests and minimize competition.

As the New York Times explained in June, among other things, the president is seeking to “minimize, ignore or even erase some of the experiences and history of Black people in the United States.”