U.S. Won’t Intervene in Term Limits Case

The Justice Department will not block the City Council’s controversial decision last year to extend the term limits law, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek a third term this fall. Federal authorities agreed that the legislation does not adversely impact minority voters or candidates who will be running for office this fall.

In a letter on Tuesday, Christopher Coates, chief of the voting section in the Justice Department’s civil rights division, told Michael A. Cardozo, New York City’s corporation counsel, that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. “does not interpose any objection to the specific changes” in the term limits law, allowing officials to serve three four-year terms, rather than two.

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Michael H. Drucker
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