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A federal judge will not issue an injunction blocking local Watauga County election districts created by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of new Watauga County local election districts have filed a federal lawsuit challenging them.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 @ 2:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Plaintiffs challenging North Carolina's new state Senate election map seek a Feb. 15 ruling from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2024 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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On Tuesday, North Carolina state politicians and analysts reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the high-profile Moore v. Harper case, with Democratic lawmakers celebrating the decision while plaintiff and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said he is glad the case is “settled.”
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will not hear a case challenging Mecklenburg County judicial districts that were repealed in 2020.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Die-hard politicos, pundits and partisans waited into early morning hours before getting real clarity on election winners and losers.
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 1:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Much of the media’s attention in North Carolina’s 2022 U.S. congressional races has been on the open U.S. Senate seat and the N.C.-13 race, both of which appear to be tossups
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will conduct Oct. 3-4 sessions at the historic Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton. Among the five cases are two with significance for N.C. elections.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 11:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Oct. 3 in a case involving voter ID, followed by an Oct. 4 hearing on disputed statewide election maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 12:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 4th U.S. Congressional District is a near-certain win for Democrats, but which Triangle-area Democrat will be replacing the retiring U.S. Rep. David Price, who began representing the area in Congress in 1987, is yet to be decided.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest filing in a case of now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts urges the state Supreme Court to focus on its recent precedent involving statewide election maps.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit linked to now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts.
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 11:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, March 7th, we discussed the competitive primary of two Republican leaders in the western part of the state
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 10:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new partisan index for seats in the N.C. General Assembly shows a nearly even split between Republicans and Democrats headed into the midterm elections.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 8:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Each of the plaintiffs in North Carolina’s legal dispute over election maps is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the fight. So is the N.C. Justice Department.
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 6:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has granted a “temporary stay” blocking an Appeals Court ruling in the case of now-repealed election districts for Mecklenburg County judges.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Challengers of a now-repealed state law creating judicial districts in Mecklenburg County are taking their case to the state Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling against challengers of a repealed law affecting Mecklenburg County judges.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
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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Avoiding splitting political units (counties, municipalities, and precincts) was part of the criteria adopted by the General Assembly at the start of the redistricting process. Let’s see how well they fulfilled that criterion in the 2021 congressional map.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Court of Appeals enters temporary order
Published: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 @ 7:26 am
By: John Steed
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It’s one of the best quotes attributed to baseball legend Yogi Berra: “It’s like deja vu all over again.”
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 11:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After much debate, public scrutiny, and controversy, the General Assembly passed redistricting maps for the N.C. House and Senate, and U.S. Congress.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, November 2, The N.C. House voted along party lines in favor of its new House election district map, while the N.C. Senate approved new congressional maps.
Published: Friday, November 26th, 2021 @ 6:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When drawing congressional and legislative district maps, can we be assured of fair and impartial elections just because lawmakers didn’t use racial or partisan factors in drawing districts?
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. House committee charged with drawing new state election maps will start the formal map-drawing process Wednesday morning. Members can work on maps from 9 a.m. to as late as 5 p.m. each weekday until the process is complete.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A day after N.C. lawmakers approved new maps for legislative and congressional elections, plaintiffs linked to former Obama-era U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are going to court to block the congressional map.
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 10:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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About this time in the legislative session - when the session runs interminably long and little is happening - the press corps, lobbyists, legislative staffers and even some lawmakers start a pool to predict how long the session might last before adjournment.
Published: Saturday, October 30th, 2021 @ 2:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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but current districts are racially gerrymandered
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Steed
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When our General Assembly convened January 13th for the 2021 session, they had two main tasks: passing a state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and drawing new districts for congressional, legislative and local governments.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 12:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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NCACC Weekly Update — July 1
Published: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 11:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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