The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected state congressional and legislative election maps with a party-line 4-3 vote. The court’s four Democratic justices agreed to strike down maps drawn by a Republican-led legislature.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s legislative and congressional election maps now sit in the hands of the N.C. Supreme Court, after 90 minutes of oral arguments for and against the maps Wednesday morning.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress is asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to join a political fight involving challenged election maps.
Published: Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The most recent N.C. Supreme Court order in a case involving challenged election maps takes up 3 1/2 pages.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 10:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s redistricting lawsuits are opposing efforts to have Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. disqualified from the case.
Published: Thursday, January 27th, 2022 @ 6:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s a huge court win from a bipartisan panel of judges. On Tuesday, a unanimous three-judge panel (2 Republicans and 1 Democrat) upheld North Carolina’s newly drawn election maps
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein want the state Supreme Court to throw out new statewide election maps.
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 9:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Democrat-dominated Buncombe County Board of Commissioners wants to join the legal fight against North Carolina’s new election maps.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 3:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One group challenging North Carolina’s new election maps in court is distancing itself from debates about recusal of targeted N.C. Supreme Court justices.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers supporting and opposing North Carolina’s new election maps will take their arguments to the N.C. Supreme Court on Feb. 2.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As critics of North Carolina’s new election maps take their case to the state Supreme Court, lawyers on both sides of the case are taking aim at justices they want to drop out of the case.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 9:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s legal fight over new election maps are seeking Supreme Court Justice Sam “Jimmy” Ervin IV’s recusal from the case.
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 9:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Opponents of North Carolina’s new election maps want the state Supreme Court to disqualify Justice Phil Berger Jr. from hearing their case.
Published: Sunday, December 19th, 2021 @ 7:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Filing starts Monday, Dec. 6, for the 2022 elections. The filing moves forward after a three judge panel on Friday refused requests to block new N.C. election maps.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2021 @ 6:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Stanford law professor who played a major role in recent redrawing of N.C. election maps is issuing a national warning about mail-in balloting.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2020 @ 4:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An updated tool for voter statistics could provide clarity for North Carolinians during a global pandemic and disrupted election.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 12:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For several North Carolina counties, the General Assembly’s new election maps may misrepresent the actual population counts by around 20%.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 6:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A court ruling will force N.C. lawmakers to redraw state House and Senate election maps for 2020. Regardless of how that process plays out, the state will need another set of new maps in 2021.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 9:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Most debate about gerrymandering reform focuses on partisan outcomes. Reformers argue that objectionable election maps favor one major political party while hurting the other.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 3:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Supreme Court justices peppered lawyers with plenty of questions during the latest arguments over North Carolina’s congressional election map. This observer would have liked to have heard even more queries.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 @ 3:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A nonpartisan commission would replace lawmakers in drawing election maps if a bill introduced Wednesday becomes law.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 8:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If the U.S. Supreme Court is ready to drop the topic of partisan gerrymandering, a legal brief filed this month on behalf of N.C. legislative leaders could help bolster their decision
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Courts have been dealing with gerrymandering - the redrawing of legislative district lines to further a particular political interest - for more than 50 years
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Listen to a common argument from the political left, and you're likely to believe that North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly has spent much of this decade clearly and purposely drawing unconstitutional election maps
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 3:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal three-judge panel has struck down North Carolina’s latest congressional election map. The judges accepted critics’ argument that the map was overly partisan in favoring Republicans.
Published: Thursday, January 11th, 2018 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chairmen of the N.C. House and Senate redistricting committees are taking aim at the Stanford law professor who is redrawing legislative election maps under the order of a three-judge federal panel
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge state court panel will decide whether the first lawsuit challenging N.C. election maps this decade can continue
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Draw North Carolina's election maps fairly, and we'll end up with representation that more closely resembles this state's tight partisan split. Right?
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge federal panel has denied a request to force a special N.C. legislative election before regularly scheduled 2018 contests
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gerrymandering is bad. North Carolina needs to reform its process of drawing election maps, a process known as redistricting.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a basic concept: Limit comparisons to items that can be compared reasonably. But too much of today's political discourse relies instead on apples-to-oranges comparisons, those comparisons that are unreasonable or perhaps impossible.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If a three-judge federal court panel does not freeze its order to redraw a new congressional election map by Feb. 19 the result would be voter confusion, inability to protect the integrity of the electoral process, suppressed voter and candidate turnout, and more than $12 million of increased taxpay
Published: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House, Senate caucuses grow despite drop in statewide popular vote margins
Published: Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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