By Colin Campbell 4/11/12 7:38pm

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Roundup: Zimmerman Charged; Redistricting Limbo; Cuomo’s Axe

George Zimmerman will be charged. Multiple elected officials, including Christine Quinn, have already sent out press releases announcing hope that justice will be served.

Mayor Bloomberg said gun issues won’t necessarily stop him from supporting candidates.

Grace Meng said Michael Nussbaum’s statement was taken out of context and Jeff Gottlieb has every right to run.

The state legislative redistricting process is in legal purgatory.

Karim Camara wants the Department of Justice to reject the State Senate lines. Read More

By Colin Campbell 4/11/12 3:42pm

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Bloomberg: ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Don’t Belong in Civilized Society

Mayor Michael Bloomberg went down to Washington D.C. earlier today to advocate for limits to “Stand Your Ground” laws, made famous by the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin, which allow looser standards for the use of deadly force. Flanked by representatives of groups like the NAACP and National Urban League, he announced a new initiative to push states, particularly Florida, to reform their self-defense laws.

“These laws are not the kind of laws that a civilized society should have,” Mr. Bloomberg said at the event. “This has nothing to do with gun owners’ rights, nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Plain and simple, this is just trying to give people a license to murder.”

“No civilized society that I know of, outside of America, has laws that permit anybody to just decide someone shouldn’t be alive, pull out a gun, shoot them, and get away with it,” he later added. Read More