RALEIGH — The N.C. Supreme Court struck down the maps produced from the General Assembly’s 2021 redistricting session in a Friday evening decision handed down just two days after oral arguments. The court split along […]
This week, the Democrat activists behind North Carolina redistricting lawsuits have reached their intended target – the Democrat majority on the N.C. Supreme Court. This was the Democrats’ plan all along, and the reasons why […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s maps for congressional and state legislative seats are getting their brief time in court after the state Supreme Court ordered the Wake County Superior Court to render an initial decision on […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered all of the state’s scheduled March 8 primaries to move to May 17, 2022, last week. The delay will allow an evidentiary hearing to be held by […]
RALEIGH — Reports indicate that former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Walker will transition from a bid for U.S. Senate and opt for the redrawn 7th Congressional district in the 2022 primaries. On Saturday evening, Walker […]
RALEIGH — The ink is dry on the state’s new congressional maps. Yet while the new political lines will be reviewed by courts following litigation, political aspirants across the state are lining up to toss […]
State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. That wasn’t so in the late 20th century, when clever local candidates and notables often got voters to cross party lines. But […]
RALEIGH — A decade ago, North Carolina Republicans redrew their legislative districts to help their party in a way that a federal court ruled illegally deprived black voters of their right to political representation. A […]
RALEIGH – The North Carolina General Assembly is still in session as legislators wait on negotiations between House and Senate leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper over the state’s two-year budget. The three leaders involved: Cooper, […]
On July 22, I was honored to testify, before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Committee on State Government, about congressional redistricting. My testimony drew heavily from my 2019 study on gerrymandering for the Mercatus Center. […]
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