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Legislators disagreed during North Carolina’s recent round of redistricting on whether the General Assembly had to conduct a racially polarized voting analysis.
Published: Thursday, March 21st, 2024 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina General Assembly is expected to have its new legislative and congressional maps ready this week.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina General Assembly has passed three maps for the state House, state Senate, and US Congress, respectively. Redistricting is not subject to a veto from the governor, so the newly passed maps are now law.
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, the state Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee passed S.B. 757, which could become the lines for North Carolina’s fourteen U.S. Congressional districts.
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Alabama and South Carolina cases could set goalposts for Voting Rights Act compliance
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 8:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly will draw congressional and state legislative maps in October
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 10:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Though North Carolina passed its newest budget last week, the legislature will still be busy this week.
Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2023 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The new redistricted congressional and legislative maps passed by our legislature are not surprising to those who have followed this hyper partisan General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2023 @ 1:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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I recently attended a forum discussing the future of elections in North Carolina. During a break, someone commented on my rants about legislative shenanigans, asking my assessment of the current General Assembly. I rambled a bit, but do remember mentioning the terms “historic,” and “power grab.”
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 9:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In what has to be a landmark decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state legislatures do not have unchecked power over federal elections.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:44 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The North Carolina Supreme Court correctly decided that partisan gerrymandering claims are “nonjusticiable, political questions”
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Stephanie Brinson is an advanced practice registered nurse seeing thousands of patients a year, along with five other APRNs, in a Garner practice open seven days week.
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 1:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an order asking for more information in the Moore v. Harper redistricting case. Justices want to know how a rehearing in a related N.C. Supreme Court case this month affects the legal landscape.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 3:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will rehear the Harper v. Hall redistricting case on March 14. It will rehear the Holmes v. Moore voter ID case March 15.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 4:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will rehear cases dealing with voter ID and statewide election maps in March.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a recent WFAE news interview, special master Bob Orr seemed to shift responsibility for North Carolina’s congressional maps from the court’s assigned special masters to the University of California professor advising them
Published: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Majority Ruling Could Lead New State Senate and House Maps
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Wisconsin Republicans challenging “redistricting” efforts from Democrats in the state, throwing out legislative maps drawn by Democratic Governor Tony Evers and adopted by its highest court, The Washington Post reported.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 4:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Supreme Court will decide in the weeks ahead whether the General Assembly must redraw election maps again for the 2024 election cycle.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 8:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a constitutional amendment implementing voter ID requirements may be invalid because the legislature that passed it was racially gerrymandered.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you have one. Republicans have belatedly identified a big one of theirs, which goes by the name Eric Holder. Let the state supreme court campaigns begin.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 4:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a party-line 4-3 split, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed to hear a redistricting dispute as early as Oct. 3.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders defend their authority over redistricting in a new brief to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Foes of N.C. legislative election maps want the state Supreme Court to speed up its consideration of their legal challenge.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 5:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation releases an updated Civitas Partisan Index on court-ordered legislative maps
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It may be faster and easier to reverse-engineer maps to fit the findings of expert witnesses
Published: Monday, February 28th, 2022 @ 1:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court is refusing to insert itself back into the state’s legal dispute over legislative and congressional redistricting at this time.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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state legislative redistricting settled - Beaufort Cty in GOP districts
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 11:53 am
By: John Steed
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A bipartisan unanimous three-judge panel has upheld newly drawn maps for North Carolina’s legislative elections. But the same panel has rejected a revised map for congressional elections.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 11:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Will the Courts Accept "Yes" for an Answer?
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The court's order is not clear about how the General Assembly should draw maps or what standards they should use
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State lawmakers defending their latest election maps are urging a three-judge panel to avoid conducting a “beauty contest” over competing plans.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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