“So Legislative Defendants ask this Court to ‘permit’ the General Assembly to redraw not only the State’s congressional and Senate districts, but also its House districts — and to do sounconstrained by four North Carolina constitutional provisions that promote fair elections and thwart part...
The measure passed with strong support from both sides of the aisle, 115-5, after the approval of six amendments, most of which were offered by House Minority Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham. The Senate is expected to approve the state House maps without changes, as is customary. Proposed ...
The House measure revives a pair of provisions that the chamber approved in April but has stalled in the Senate. One item would allow recipients of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans to treat those proceeds as business expenses that could be deducted from their s...
We elect 50 State Senators and the ideal average number of people in a Senate district is 212,614. We elect 120 Representatives in the North Carolina House and the ideal number of people in a district is 88,589. It is the people elected by voters in these districts who then select the ...