The special masters’ congressional map protects Democrats from a coming red wave.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The full N.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a three-judge panel’s order blocking congressional and legislative candidate filing. Filing can proceed until the full 15-member court considers challenges to new state election maps. “It is hereby ordered, upon a vote of the majority of judges of the Court,...
Partisan gerrymandering returns to state court Monday, July 15, for a battle that could stretch over weeks. On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision that federal judges should step out of squabbles over partisan redistricting, there is Common Cause v. Lewis. This lawsuit challenging partisan gerrymanders of legislative districts drawn in 2017...
