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.”
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.
Two weeks before they’re set to lose their majority, N.C. Supreme Court Democrats issued rulings Friday striking down the state’s photo voter identification law and the election map used for state Senate races. Both rulings featured party-line 4-3 splits, with the court’s four Democrats outvoting their three Republican colleagues.
Four days before the N.C. Supreme Court is scheduled to take up a case involving N.C. election maps, a new issue has emerged. Republican legislative leaders are raising concerns about a Supreme Court clerk who could be affected directly by the case’s outcome. In a document filed Friday with the state’s high court, lawyers for...
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.
The N.C. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in two high-profile election-related cases on back-to-back days next month. Justices will address the state’s voter identification law on Oct.3, then the state’s legislative and congressional election maps on Oct. 4.
The latest filing in a case of now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts urges the state Supreme Court to focus on its recent precedent involving statewide election maps. The reference to the Supreme Court’s Feb. 14 decision in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case appears in a document filed Wednesday. The filing responds to critics who...
As critics of North Carolina’s new election maps take their case to the state Supreme Court, lawyers on both sides of the case are taking aim at justices they want to drop out of the case. Along with official notices of appeal, one document filed in the state’s highest court within the past day was...
Opponents of North Carolina’s new election maps want the state Supreme Court to disqualify Justice Phil Berger Jr. from hearing their case. Among a series of petitions and motions filed in the N.C. Supreme Court since Monday is a request to block Berger from considering lawsuits related to election redistricting. “Here, Justice Berger, Jr.’s father,...
