If you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em. It has been the default setting of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and his liberal allies even before the governor took office 14 months ago. Any time the Republican-led General Assembly moved to assert its authority, the Left has given a simple response:…
On Friday afternoon, a three-judge federal court panel adopted the recommendations of the expert it selected and folded nine legislative districts into the state’s General Assembly maps. In the Covington v. N.C. case, the court picked Nathaniel Persily, a professor at the Stanford law school and a redistricting expert, to…
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower-court ruling that would have forced N.C. lawmakers to draw a new congressional election map next week. The high court granted a stay of the lower court’s ruling “pending the timely filing and disposition of an appeal in this Court.” The two-sentence…
Couples therapy might be dissolving into irreconcilable differences after Thursday’s bumpy initial meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting. During more than three hours of presentations and questioning, Democrats and Republicans often seemed to talk past one another, unlike the more collegial…
Court intervention in congressional redistricting has some lawmakers wondering whether judges are gaveling their way into legislative territory. On Jan. 9, a panel of three federal judges blocked North Carolina from using its current map during congressional elections. The map,…
UPDATED, 5:50 p.m. The court issued an order denying the legislators’ request. The court said the Jan. 5 hearing would open with a presentation by the special master explaining his maps. After that, each side would get one hour to argue its position. Top legislative leaders are asking a three-judge panel…
UPDATE (3 P.M.): This version of the story replaces Sen. Dan Blue’s initial tweet with portions of his formal statement. Chairmen of the N.C. House and Senate redistricting committees are taking aim at the Stanford law professor who is redrawing legislative election maps under the order of a three-judge…
The Stanford law professor empowered by a three-judge federal panel to redraw N.C. legislative election maps has released his draft plans. He wants to hear objections and potential revisions to the plan by Friday. Professor Nathaniel Persily issued his draft plan less than two weeks after the judges named…
Leaders of the N.C. General Assembly’s redistricting committees are labeling as “outrageous” and “extraordinary” the appointment of a West Coast-based law professor to a role that could involve redrawing this state’s legislative election maps. A three-judge federal panel overseeing the Covington v. North Carolina redistricting lawsuit named Stanford Law School…
The three-judge federal court panel reviewing North Carolina legislative districts decided Thursday to appoint Stanford Law School professor Nathaniel Persily to redo at least part of the maps submitted in the Covington v. North Carolina lawsuit. In its order, the panel said it was likely two of the three…
