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Common Cause rejects request for new N.C. Supreme Court redistricting hearing as ‘frivolous’

Left-of-center activist group Common Cause is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to reject a new hearing in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case. In paperwork filed Monday, Common Cause labels the request from Republican state legislative leaders a “frivolous petition.”

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Legislators’ redistricting arguments would ‘wreak havoc,’ critics tell U.S. Supreme Court

Critics of North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly urge the U.S. Supreme Court to reject lawmakers’ arguments in the Moore v. Harper redistricting case. Those critics predict a ruling in favor of lawmakers would “wreak havoc” on American elections. The nation’s highest court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 7 in Moore v. Harper.

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Legislators urge federal judge to toss out unaffiliated voters’ election lawsuit

North Carolina’s top legislative leaders believe a federal judge should dismiss a lawsuit that aims to add unaffiliated voters to the state’s elections board. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, filed a motion Friday to dismiss the case Common Cause v. Moore.

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Common Cause sues to allow unaffiliated voters to serve on N.C. elections board

Left-of-center activist group Common Cause has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that blocks unaffiliated voters from serving on the N.C. State Board of Elections. The suit, Common Cause v. Moore, asks a federal court to declare the law “unconstitutional and void.” Common Cause also asks the court to block the N.C. General...

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Redistricting plaintiffs urge N.C. Supreme Court to hear new arguments as early as September

Just as the fall election campaign season heats up in September, the N.C. Supreme Court could hear new arguments in the legal battle over state election maps. That’s if the state’s highest court grants a request from plaintiffs in the election redistricting case.

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GOP leaders cry foul at suggestion taxpayers should pay redistricting ‘special masters’

Following the 2020 census, the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court imposed new maps drawn by “special masters.” A document filed in Superior Court lays out fees submitted by the special masters and their assistants. It shows $195,138.39 for eight days of work.

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Legislature’s critics urge U.S. Supreme Court to reject redistricting appeal

Opponents of the N.C. General Assembly’s legal arguments about election maps are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal from state legislative leaders. Lawmakers filed paperwork in March asking the Supreme Court to take up a dispute over the N.C. congressional map.

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Democrats, others, file lawsuit in state court to overturn legislative districts

The results of this month’s legislative elections haven’t been certified. Yet Common Cause, the N.C. Democratic Party, and 22 individual plaintiffs are seeking a court order to overturn some of those General Assembly districts. The parties filed the lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Wake County Superior Court. The lawsuit challenges legislative maps drawn in 2017...

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Federal court throws out N.C. congressional maps, now what?

An Aug. 27 federal court ruling throwing out North Carolina’s congressional maps has added new complications to an unsettled election schedule. The decision adds another wrinkle to the state’s 2018 election. Over the course of 321 pages, a three-judge panel raised the prospect that state lawmakers might be forced to redraw congressional maps in the...

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N.C. redistricting fights pit judges against lawmakers in power struggle

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, GOP redistricting leaders admitted, was designed to give Republicans an advantage in 10 out of...

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