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reverses activist Obama judge in Louisiana
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Steed
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case likely to go to SCOTUS on appeal
Published: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 9:11 pm
By: John Steed
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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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US Supreme Court is likely to nuke whole issue of racial gerrymandering
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 @ 1:31 pm
By: John Steed
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Biden DOJ got the ball rolling in Texas
Published: Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Steed
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Keep an eye on this potential shift in "The Law"
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2024 @ 9:49 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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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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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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8th Circuit ruling on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could have profound impact on redistrictingCase sets up an appeal to the SCOTUS
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional map was a racial gerrymander
Published: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has recently made the national media rounds claiming that the current General Assembly is a partisan gerrymander. Does this claim have any merit? The short answer is not at all.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 8:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a constitutional amendment implementing voter ID requirements may be invalid because the legislature that passed it was racially gerrymandered.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Obama judge was to draw own racially gerrymandered districts tomorrow
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Steed
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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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It should have come as no surprise that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the maps approved by North Carolina’s high court.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Court finds that the question of drawing districts is "non-justiciable"
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawyers supporting and opposing North Carolina’s new election maps will take their arguments to the N.C. Supreme Court on Feb. 2.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 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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likely violates recent court decisions
Published: Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Steed
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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, September 1st, 2021 @ 9:37 am
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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In a split 2-1 ruling, the N.C. Court of Appeals has reinstated voter-approved state constitutional amendments to require voter ID and to cap the state’s income tax rate.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2020 @ 3:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders have offered a consistent argument throughout a nearly decade-long legal fight over state election maps.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 @ 6:04 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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We've been hearing a lot about "redistricting" lately.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 11:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Judges in the Common Cause v. Lewis election redistricting trial must answer a relatively simple question: Does the N.C. Constitution limit partisan gerrymandering?
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It may be weeks — perhaps months — before a three-judge panel issues a ruling on whether lawmakers drew N.C. voting districts legally, or whether the legislative districts are partisan gerrymanders.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Supreme Court justices peppered lawyers with plenty of questions during the latest arguments over North Carolina’s congressional election map. This observer would have liked to have heard even more queries.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 @ 3:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina voters have tried for a long time now to enact a common-sense voter identification law.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 10:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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