Colleen Mathis impeached by Jan Brewer, Arizona Senate

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Arizona’s redistricting process dissolved into chaos Tuesday night after state lawmakers voted to impeach the top official on the independent commission tasked with crafting the state’s congressional districts, throwing the once-in-a-decade line-drawing into legal limbo.

The 21-6 vote in the state Senate to remove Colleen Mathis, the chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, marked a display of legislative power on the part of Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, who made a forceful push encouraging GOP lawmakers, who control the Senate, to impeach.

Brewer and the GOP legislators objected to the commission’s draft proposal, which positioned Democrats to compete for a majority of the state’s nine congressional seats and threatened to pit two of the state’s GOP freshmen together in a primary.