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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 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 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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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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Sam Wang's Statistical Analysis Led to a Court's Rejection of the General Assembly's Remedial Congressional Map
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 7:49 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 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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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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Baseball fans learn early how to read the most important part of a box score. It’s a skill some N.C. electoral reformers have yet to master.
Published: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 @ 6:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Candidate filing in North Carolina starts on December 2, but one group of candidates will not be able to file that day.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2019 @ 2:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the map drawing progresses in the General Assembly in the wake of the Harper v Lewis preliminary injunction, all of the maps so far produced by members of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting have either an 8-5 or 7-6 likely split in favor of Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 2:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed a new set of congressional districts today. Within an hour, the same Democratic organization that had sued against the previous map said that they would sue over the new map as well.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 2:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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There are a few cautionary tales for the GOP within the results so far
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2019 @ 12:25 am
By: LifeZette
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On the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill stood the noble statue of "Silent Sam," the Confederate soldier who stood vigilant watch over the campus. It stood on McCorkle place, the University's upper quad, facing Franklin Street.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Draw North Carolina's election maps fairly, and we'll end up with representation that more closely resembles this state's tight partisan split. Right?
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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