Reports that on August 1, 1994, a panel of three federal judges in North Carolina ruled that the state's congressional district map, one of several Southern redistricting plans challenged in court by white voters, amounted to 'racial gerrymandering' but did not violate the Constitution. How ...
North Carolina leaders recognized the problem several years ago and have been working to fix it. In 2017, an amendment was added to House Bill 482. In the final hours of the long session it would have authorized a Criminal Code Recodification Commission, composed of experts in avariety ...
Every 10 years, North Carolina’s congressional and legislative voting districts are redrawn to account for population changes shown in the latest U.S. census. That’s called redistricting. But when politicians abuse redistricting and manipulate our voting maps to unfairly cling to their power,...
The three-judge panel of state trial judges unanimously ruled that courts can step in to decide when partisan advantage goes so far it diminishes democracy. Their ruling comes after theU.S. Supreme Court ruled in June in a separate case involving North Carolina's congressional mapthat ...
But some of that advantage disappeared this week, when a three-judge panel approved a new congressional map for North Carolina to replace the state’s previous Republican gerrymander. It’s been a busy year for North Carolina district maps. In September, North Carolina’s state-...
to four Democratic seats, transforming North Carolina's current 7-7 House breakdown into as lopsided as 11R-3D. As our article below details, that would nearly double Republicans' current cushion in the House. The legislature is expected to draft and pass a new congressional ...
lawmaker switched parties last month. And the state will go through yet another round of congressional redistricting this year, a process that now has few guardrails preventing Republican state legislators from drawing a map that could give them the ability to flip as many as four U.S. ...
a panel of judges in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina awarded judgment to the Firm’s clients after a bench trial,ruling for the first time in U.S. historythat a state’s congressional map is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The Supreme Court ...
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Members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation recently introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Act (HR38), spearheaded by Republican US Rep. Richard Hudson, NC-09, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 @ 12:16 pm By: Carolina ...