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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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Sometimes there are legitimate non-political reasons for districts to have funny shapes.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 5:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina General Assembly is expected to have its new legislative and congressional maps ready this week.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday, the state Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee passed S.B. 757, which could become the lines for North Carolina’s fourteen U.S. Congressional districts.
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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 N.C. Supreme Court heard fresh arguments in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case Tuesday. The court, with a new 5-2 Republican majority, could reverse a December decision from the old court's 4-3 Democratic majority.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 5:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Activist group Common Cause labels as "frivolous" the request from N.C. legislative leaders for a state Supreme Court rehearing in a hotly contested redistricting case.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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In a party-line 4-3 split, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed to hear a redistricting dispute as early as Oct. 3.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders defend their authority over redistricting in a new brief to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Foes of N.C. legislative election maps want the state Supreme Court to speed up its consideration of their legal challenge.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 5:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation releases an updated Civitas Partisan Index on court-ordered legislative maps
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly did not convene this week, but there was still activity in Raleigh.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 8:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The legislature's remedial maps are compliant with the court's order so there is no reason to consider plaintiffs' maps
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court is refusing to insert itself back into the state’s legal dispute over legislative and congressional redistricting at this time.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The proposed remedial maps from the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters have a pattern of splitting cities
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not all pictures are worth a thousand words. But the picture of North Carolina’s new congressional map tells an important story.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 8:57 am
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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The N.C. Supreme Court might offer voters more clues in the months ahead that will help them make choices in the 2020 elections.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 6:40 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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North Carolina’s 2020 election maps created by House members may not stand up to court scrutiny.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 10:15 pm
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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A three-judge N.C. Superior Court panel has tossed out North Carolina’s election maps for state House and Senate districts. The court has ordered state lawmakers to draw new maps in two weeks.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Listen to a common argument from the political left, and you're likely to believe that North Carolina's Republican-led General Assembly has spent much of this decade clearly and purposely drawing unconstitutional election maps
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 3:09 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 Senate Redistricting Committee made a few tweaks to redrawn Senate maps, including an incumbent protection amendment for a Democrat, but otherwise passed the documents intact
Published: Saturday, August 26th, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eight members of the state House either will face challenges from incumbents or will need to run for election in new legislative districts
Published: Monday, August 21st, 2017 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As legislators sharpen their pencils for another round of electoral mapmaking, now seems like a good time to revisit North Carolina's redistricting "scorecard."
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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All but one of the 29 speakers at Friday's public hearing of a joint legislative redistricting committee encouraged and admonished Republican lawmakers to dramatically alter the way North Carolina's electoral districts are drawn
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2017 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ten words from a single U.S. Supreme Court justice just might have derailed an effort to end partisan gerrymandering through judicial fiat
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2016 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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