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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 4:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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 N.C. Justice Department and lawyers representing Republican legislative leaders take opposite stances in new Moore v. Harper briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, both Democrats, filed a motion Friday opposing Republican legislative leaders in a redistricting case at the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders have filed new legal briefs supporting reversals of the N.C. Supreme Court's December decisions in voter ID and redistricting cases.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders label Common Cause's latest court filing in a redistricting dispute as "improper" and "meritless."
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Activist group Common Cause labels as "frivolous" the request from N.C. legislative leaders for a state Supreme Court rehearing in a hotly contested redistricting case.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to rehear cases dealing with state election maps and voter ID.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 8:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders hope the state Supreme Court will hold a new hearing in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 1:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders submitted their final written arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the Moore v. Harper redistricting case.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 3:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders' redistricting arguments would "wreak havoc" on American elections, according to a new brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by left-of-center critics.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 1:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Pennsylvania state Senate Republicans are throwing their support behind N.C. legislative leaders in the Moore v. Harper case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders argue that state courts' decision to throw out a congressional election map is "irreconcilable" with the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 6:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top N.C. legislative leaders have filed arguments against a court-imposed congressional map, even though they want to drop their appeal against the map.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 1:42 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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Legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal against a court-ordered congressional map. The map is valid only for 2022 elections.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 2:11 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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Republican legislative leaders and their redistricting critics could battle over court-ordered fees for the work of special masters.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders are giving U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts more reasons to back their request for emergency Supreme Court action on North Carolina’s disputed congressional map.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal dispute over a new congressional map for North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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WRAL reported yesterday about the kurfuffle over Cheif Justice Paul Newby pointing out that there is not a “fair elections” clause in the North Carolina Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. House and Senate gave final approval to redrawn or remedial legislative electoral maps Thursday, after last-minute adjustments delayed the Senate session several times.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 9:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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Two leaders of North Carolina’s legislative redistricting committees defended their election map-drawing process during the third day of a trial focusing on the future of those maps.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 6:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to avoid jumping into a legal fight over new election maps.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 9:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 2:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With fresh census data forcing N.C. lawmakers to draw new congressional and legislative election maps next year, we’re bound to hear calls once again for redistricting reform.
Published: Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 @ 2:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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It’s time for a break from “summer camp.”
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A court battle over legislative redistricting escalated Tuesday, July 2, into a tug-of-war over records that may or may not be considered public.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The results of this month's legislative elections haven't been certified
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 5:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state three-judge panel has rejected attempts from plaintiffs in North Carolina's ongoing legislative redistricting federal lawsuit to meet their goals through an earlier state court case
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 9:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court has added more confusion to North Carolina's election picture - agreeing to block a lower court's ruling in legislative redistricting affecting the state's two largest counties
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 2:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling by a federal three-judge panel in the Covington v. North Carolina legislative redistricting lawsuit threatens to upset state election laws on a national scale through unprecedented court overreach, eight secretaries of state say in a legal filing
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, the day after a Senate panel on judicial reform discussed alternatives to judicial elections and possible changes in judicial districts, the leaders of the Senate and House agreed to create a joint legislative panel to address the issues
Published: Sunday, January 21st, 2018 @ 8:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You don't have to be a meteorologist to understand that the gathering storm clouds are threatening the 2018 elections
Published: Thursday, January 11th, 2018 @ 3:35 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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