Waiting for the Maps

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Plaintiffs and defendants submitted their final briefs in the legislative gerrymandering court case…

New Legislative Maps Head Back to Court

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The North Carolina General Assembly delivered its proposed new state legislative maps before the court-ordered deadline last week. Now we’ll see what a state court has to say about legislators’ latest go. In early September, a three-judge panel struck down the legislative maps which were used in the 2018 elections, ruling they were extreme partisan […]

Legislature Starts Drawing New Maps

The district map-drawing ball is back in the legislature’s hands, and both the state House and Senate are scrambling to draw new maps under the court’s rules before the clock runs out this Thursday, September 19. Those rules made for an exceptionally open and publicly transparent process, in which private partisan caucuses and use of […]

Victory for Democracy

North Carolina’s state legislative maps are unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders, said a special three-judge panel last week, and must be redrawn immediately to fix that bias. Partisan gerrymandering is when districts are drawn specifically and systematically for the purpose of elevating candidates of one political party over all opponents. The case, Common Cause v. Lewis, challenged […]

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