Campaign Watch: Court Expert Redraws Legislative Maps

If you want it done right, do it yourself — and a court-appointed expert has produced new state legislative maps without beating around the bush.

The Stanford law professor who was named less than two weeks before to draw new maps for a set of challenged districts came back with his proposals last week. The parties to the anti-gerrymandering lawsuit challenging the districts were given until Friday to respond.

These are the latest developments in the continuing saga of North Carolina’s state legislative district maps. The story’s outcome may help determine who runs the legislative process, and North Carolina laws and budgets overall, for years to come. See a good update here.

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