Opinion
Old NC map battle helped kill latest congressional complaint
The US Supreme Court's 2019 decision in the North Carolina case Rucho v. Common Cause helped thwart legal attacks on the state's latest congressional map.
News
Judges uphold new congressional maps in time for primary filing
A three-judge panel unanimously upheld North Carolina’s new congressional districts, just in time for 2020 candidates to start filing. The judges’ ruling Monday, Dec. 2, in Harper v. Lewis still left several conflicts unresolved. Attorneys disagreed about whether the General Assembly’s new maps were duly competitive or gave Democrats a fair number of seats. Filing...
Opinion
SCOTUS showing subtleties of jurisprudence
We tend to think of U.S. Supreme Court justices as ideological, their views and actions mapping neatly onto the conventional liberal-to-conservative continuum of American politics. Their decisions are thought to conform to the party of the president who nominated them. The current conservative bloc is Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil...
Opinion
Redistricting should favor voters
There’s no perfect way to draw electoral districts, but surely we can do better than the current system and the incessant political and legal strife it produces.
News
Duke redistricting event elevated as justices schedule N.C. arguments
Attorneys arguing congressional redistricting cases from North Carolina and Maryland say they’ll offer U.S. Supreme Court justices an array of legal theories, hoping one will stick and the court will rule extreme partisan redistricting plans unconstitutional. By chance, the lawyers were speaking Friday at a Common Cause redistricting reform event on the Duke University campus...
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U.S. Supreme Court punts N.C. partisan redistricting challenge
The clock on partisan gerrymandering keeps ticking. The U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned order issued Monday, sent lawsuits challenging the legality of North Carolina’s congressional districts back to a three-judge panel for reconsideration. The justices ordered the lower court to look at the consolidated lawsuits of Rucho v. Common Cause and League of Women...
