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Following the Common Cause v. Lewis decision last month ordering the General Assembly to redraw legislative districts, I noted that the left may find results of their victory underwhelming.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 12:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Defendants in Common Cause v. Lewis spurned plaintiffs’ objections to their new 2020 House election maps, claiming the objections “appear to be the product of the partisan goals of the North Carolina Democratic Party.”
Published: Monday, October 7th, 2019 @ 1:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The redistricting court in Common Cause v. Lewis issued several strict guidelines last month to the General Assembly on how to draft its new 2020 election maps. But will the court’s appointed referee have to follow the same rules?
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge N.C. Superior Court panel’s ruling Tuesday, Aug. 3, in Common Cause v. Lewis will force the N.C. General Assembly to redraw state House and Senate election maps.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 @ 2:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judges in the Common Cause v. Lewis election redistricting trial must answer a relatively simple question: Does the N.C. Constitution limit partisan gerrymandering?
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It may be weeks — perhaps months — before a three-judge panel issues a ruling on whether lawmakers drew N.C. voting districts legally, or whether the legislative districts are partisan gerrymanders.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Whatever the three-judge Superior Court panel decides about Common Cause v. Lewis, a challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s legislative districts, is relevant only if the plaintiffs win.
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2019 @ 7:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s redistricting trial Common Cause v. Lewis concluded Friday with heightened tensions, a day after the court threw out part of the testimony of one of the General Assembly’s key witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 9:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Before mounting a defense in the Common Cause v. Lewis partisan gerrymandering trial, one lawmaker has issued a news release hinting at arguments he and fellow defendants are likely to make.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After slogging through a mass of statistical data and redistricting jargon, day three of Common Cause v. Lewis brought the court back to the fundamental questions: the constitutionality of Republicans’ gerrymandered maps and the legal implications of the controversial Hofeller files.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 2:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you can’t get a law, then go to court.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Partisan gerrymandering returns to state court Monday, July 15, for a battle that could stretch over weeks.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin named a three-judge Superior Court panel to hear the Common Cause v. David Lewis redistricting challenge.
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 6:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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