N.C. legislative leaders urge the state Supreme Court to reject the latest arguments from a left-of-center activist group in a legal dispute over state election maps. Lawmakers are seeking a rehearing of the case called Harper v. Hall.
Little more than one month after a lame-duck Democratic-majority N.C. Supreme Court ruled against Republican legislators on election maps and voter ID, lawmakers are asking for a do-over. Petitions filed Friday at the state’s highest court ask for rehearings in both the Harper v. Hall and Holmes v. Moore cases.
N.C. legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to take another look at a case involving state election maps. Lawmakers filed a petition Friday for the court to rehear the Harper v. Hall case.
The state's highest court constantly rewrites rules for drawing North Carolina's election maps.
The N.C. Supreme Court will decide in the weeks ahead whether the General Assembly will need to redraw state election maps again. The state’s highest court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging maps used for this year’s legislative and congressional elections.
Lawmakers preparing for Oct. 4 arguments before the N.C. Supreme Court took aim Friday at critics of the General Assembly’s election maps. Legislators say their redistricting critics are trying to kill the legislative branch’s power to draw the maps.
State legislative leaders have met an Aug. 1 deadline to submit complaints about North Carolina's congressional election map to the N.C. Supreme Court. At the same time, those legislative leaders still seek to drop their appeal challenging the court-imposed map.
Legislative leaders urge the N.C. Supreme Court to confirm the General Assembly’s authority to draw state election maps. That’s the key argument of a brief submitted Wednesday in the state’s ongoing legal fight over redistricting.
State legislative leaders filed paperwork Wednesday to drop their appeal of a court-ordered congressional map that will be used only for this year’s elections. Lawmakers are taking this step after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in June to consider the legal dispute involving the future of N.C. congressional maps.
Legislative leaders are urging the N.C. Supreme Court to reject a shortened timetable for a case involving state election maps. Left-of-center activist group Common Cause is pushing for speedy court action on redistricting.
State lawmakers defending their latest election maps are urging a three-judge panel to avoid conducting a “beauty contest” over competing plans. That language appears in a document filed Monday in the legal case over N.C. congressional and legislative maps. The panel of Superior Court judges must decide by noon Wednesday whether to uphold redrawn maps...
