N.C. legislative leaders label Common Cause's latest court filing in a redistricting dispute as "improper" and "meritless."
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
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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N.C. legislative leaders have filed a final brief asking a federal judge to dismiss the Common Cause v. Moore lawsuit. It aims to give unaffiliated voters access to seats on the State Board of Elections.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Common Cause and four individuals are suing in federal court to throw out a state law that blocks unaffiliated voters from serving on the N.C. State Board of Elections.
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 @ 11:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislators object to Common Cause's proposal to speed up N.C. Supreme Court consideration of a redistricting case.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Following the Common Cause v. Lewis decision last month ordering the General Assembly to redraw legislative districts, I noted that the left may find results of their victory underwhelming.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 12:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Whatever the three-judge Superior Court panel decides about Common Cause v. Lewis, a challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s legislative districts, is relevant only if the plaintiffs win.
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2019 @ 7:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Before mounting a defense in the Common Cause v. Lewis partisan gerrymandering trial, one lawmaker has issued a news release hinting at arguments he and fellow defendants are likely to make.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After slogging through a mass of statistical data and redistricting jargon, day three of Common Cause v. Lewis brought the court back to the fundamental questions: the constitutionality of Republicans’ gerrymandered maps and the legal implications of the controversial Hofeller files.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 2:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you can’t get a law, then go to court.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Partisan gerrymandering returns to state court Monday, July 15, for a battle that could stretch over weeks.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest lawsuit against North Carolina's redistricting process challenges the partisan nature of the "gerrymandering" process itself
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 8:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new unofficial congressional district map released Monday by a bipartisan panel of former state judges was not received warmly by the members of the General Assembly who have the legal authority to set election district lines.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Carolina Journal recently reported on a concerted attack by left-of-center advocacy groups against the American Legislative Exchange Council -- a nonpartisan membership organization of state lawmakers that promotes federalism and free-market policies at the state level.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent months, liberal advocacy groups have conducted a concerted attack against the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Washington, D.C.- based nonpartisan public-policy group created in 1973 that promotes federalism, free markets, and limited government.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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