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Congressional maps are being fought in court nationwide.
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 @ 6:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Plaintiffs challenging a recent ruling in a federal North Carolina redistricting lawsuit have asked the full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the case.
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 @ 8:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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 fall season in North Carolina brings with it the promise of not just colorful leaves on trees but a pivotal shift in redistricting.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 8:51 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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The new fall season in North Carolina is not only ushering in a change in the weather but a possible change in redistricting for the state as well.
Published: Friday, January 5th, 2024 @ 9:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Purple State Supreme Court Makes Major Ruling On Election Integrity Law, Reversing Previous DecisionThe North Carolina Supreme Court made several key election decisions on Friday, ruling to reinstate a voter ID law and keep the Republican-led redistricting maps in place.
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 5:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Supreme court is scheduled to rehear two high-stakes election lawsuits on redistricting and voter ID.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 11:39 pm
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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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, describes North Carolina’s Moore v. Harper congressional redistricting case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 11:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court spent nearly three hours dissecting arguments in North Carolina's Moore v. Harper congressional redistricting case.
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Jeanette Doran, president and general counsel of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, rebuts arguments about the Independent State Legislature Doctrine, a concept tied to North Carolina’s Moore v. Harper redistricting case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2022 @ 11:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs in North Carolina's election redistricting dispute object to the latest request from N.C. lawmakers, who want to dismiss their own state Supreme Court appeal.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 1:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We are still dealing with the fallout from the redistricting case that resulted in a panel of court-appointed special masters drawing North Carolina’s congressional districts last February.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the dust finally settled on the latest (but certainly not last) round of North Carolina’s redistricting wars, we can take stock of how those districts could perform in the next election.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today the RNC, NRCC, and North Carolina GOP filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court to support North Carolina Republicans’ right to draw and uphold their congressional maps.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 8:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Democratic majority on the court has a range of options, but the upcoming election could act as a brake on their taking extreme action
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 8:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many are probably familiar with the ads targeting North Carolina’s latest redistricting case, known as the Harper vs. Hall case, over the last few weeks.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 10:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A small advantage in public support Republicans have over Democrats translates into a larger advantage in both statewide and legislative races
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center of Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the significance of county clusters in North Carolina’s election redistricting.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 5:02 pm
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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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 7:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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There is broad agreement that North Carolina is better suited to handle redistricting in a more transparent fashion than a decade ago, but further improvements can be made to the process according to a wide spectrum of speakers at Duke University’s Redistricting and American Democracy two day sympos
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s history of drawing congressional and legislative districts is challenging to defend for both political parties.
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 10:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republicans celebrated wins in North Carolina while remaining focused on future priorities, especially redistricting, school choice, and economic revival.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has been embroiled in a decades-long redistricting saga since the late twentieth century.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest (but certainly not last) round of redistricting lawsuits is behind us.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 1:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In the middle of North Carolina’s uncertain scuffle over congressional redistricting, it’s anyone’s guess what will happen during the 2020 primaries.
Published: Sunday, December 1st, 2019 @ 10:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When it comes to North Carolina redistricting, the handwriting is on the wall. The old system for producing legislative and congressional districts is going away.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This is the second of a two-part series critiquing several redistricting reform proposals in the North Carolina General Assembly on their adherence to principles of redistricting reform.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 3:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Republican Party has filed public records requests into the seven House Democrats on the Redistricting Committee as well as House Minority Leader Darren Jackson and Rep. Grier Martin.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 12:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley released the following statement in response to the lawsuit filed by liberal redistricting group National Democratic Redistricting Committee
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2019 @ 2:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s redistricting trial Common Cause v. Lewis concluded Friday with heightened tensions, a day after the court threw out part of the testimony of one of the General Assembly’s key witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 9:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina's redistricting process.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Attorneys arguing congressional redistricting cases from North Carolina and Maryland say they'll offer U.S. Supreme Court justices an array of legal theories, hoping one will stick and the court will rule extreme partisan redistricting plans unconstitutional
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 @ 8:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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2019 was only four days old when we got the announcement the U.S. Supreme Court was going to hear arguments on North Carolina's redistricting lawsuit in March. Once again, our state will be in the political spotlight.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 3:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina politics can be exhausting. The past few weeks have brought us wrangling over redistricting and constitutional amendments, conflicts between Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican lawmakers over disaster relief and a gas-pipeline fund, and a mob of protesters toppling the Silent Sam statue
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An Aug. 27 federal court ruling throwing out North Carolina's congressional maps has added new complications to an unsettled election schedule. The decision adds another wrinkle to the state's 2018 election
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate Select Committee on Elections approved a drastically slimmer version of a House judicial redistricting bill. Constitutional issues about the bill struck a raw nerve among Democrats
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some members of the General Assembly seem to think so.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 2:44 am
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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The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower-court ruling that would have forced N.C. lawmakers to draw a new congressional election map next week
Published: Saturday, January 20th, 2018 @ 4:18 am
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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