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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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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review:
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 7:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New maps proposed for 2020 legislative elections emerged from the most open, transparent process North Carolina ever has used to draw election lines.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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One down. One to go. The House passed a new district map, and it’s on its way to the Senate.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 @ 3:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly’s new election maps, as they are now, would largely even the playing field for 2020, experts say.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It's a three-way race in the state House of Representatives District 59 Republican primary, with incumbent Rep. Jon Hardister squaring off against former state Sen. Mark McDaniel and newcomer Karen Albright
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 @ 11:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As legal battles continue over North Carolina's election maps, one recent development deserves special recognition: A state three-judge panel has chosen to distinguish the legal process from partisan gamesmanship
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 3:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the exception of Wake and Mecklenburg counties, candidates for most offices in North Carolina - legislative and congressional - will file during the upcoming filing period, without changes, says State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 7:16 pm
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 Friday afternoon, a three-judge federal court panel adopted the recommendations of the expert it selected and folded nine legislative districts into the state's General Assembly maps
Published: Saturday, January 20th, 2018 @ 9:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four days after their lawyers criticized the handiwork of a special master drawing new maps for N.C. legislative elections, Republican lawmakers learned that another special master will rework the state’s congressional election map
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The three-judge federal panel handling the Covington v. North Carolina redistricting lawsuit did not say Friday which of the three legislative maps under consideration they preferred, or hint when they might issue an order
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 1:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Top legislative leaders are asking a three-judge panel to move up its hearing date in the latest round of legal wrangling over redrawn N.C. House and Senate election maps
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:16 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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The Stanford law professor empowered by a three-judge federal panel to redraw N.C. legislative election maps has released his draft plans
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel has ordered a Stanford law professor to redraw nine N.C. legislative districts by Dec. 1, signaling "serious concerns" about the legislature's effort to correct maps that had been thrown out because of racial gerrymandering
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The three-judge federal court panel reviewing North Carolina legislative districts decided Thursday to appoint Stanford Law School professor Nathaniel Persily to redo at least part of the maps submitted in the Covington v. North Carolina lawsuit
Published: Sunday, October 29th, 2017 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leaders of the N.C. General Assembly's redistricting committees are labeling as "outrageous" and "extraordinary" the appointment of a West Coast-based law professor to a role that could involve redrawing this state's legislative election maps
Published: Saturday, October 28th, 2017 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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