RALEIGH — Facing a deadline this week, the North Carolina legislature stayed on track to enact replacement districts for dozens of its seats on time. Showing bipartisan support, the full Senate voted 38-9 on Monday […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina legislators, who are redrawing dozens of General Assembly districts that judges deemed illegal partisan gerrymanders, turned Monday to considering district lines generated by a key expert for those who successfully sued […]
RALEIGH — A North Carolina trial that concluded Friday leaves state judges to decide whether they can identify when politicians go too far in drawing voting districts to their advantage, a judgment the U.S. Supreme […]
RALEIGH — Documents recovered from the house of a deceased Republican mapmaker that are part of a partisan gerrymandering lawsuit in North Carolina shouldn’t be used in this month’s scheduled trial because there’s no way […]
RALEIGH — Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled federal courts aren’t the place to settle partisan gerrymandering disputes, opponents of North Carolina’s district maps are putting their hopes in state courts. An election […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering two cases pertaining to gerrymandering, and its rulings are eagerly awaited by those concerned about the practice. Many commentators take it as axiomatic that gerrymandering is an ongoing scandal, but how problematic is it? The case is not as straightforward as it may first […]
RALEIGH — Attorneys for North Carolina Republican lawmakers pushed back hard in state court on Monday over accusations the legislators misled federal judges in an earlier redistricting lawsuit. Republican legislative leaders filed a response to […]
RALEIGH — Republican lawmakers will request a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on the decision handed down by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals this week that invalidated the current N.C. Congressional District maps, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina Republican lawmakers drew congressional district boundaries to ensure lopsided electoral victories for their party against rival Democrats. The justices […]
Federal judges order N.C. to use “special master” version of state legislative maps Republican lawmakers say they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week in a separate case, SCOTUS stayed a lower […]
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