If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects future partisan gerrymandering cases, the primary legal battlefield is likely to shift to Raleigh.
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...
The U.S. Supreme Court finally may choose to decide how much partisan advantage is too much when a political party draws congressional districts. The justices agreed Friday to hear arguments in lawsuits involving the congressional maps in North Carolina and Maryland. Districts in both states had been declared unconstitutional by trial court panels in different...
People complaining that a closely split electorate fails to produce a closely split congressional delegation are taking issue with a basic element of our centuries-old electoral process.
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...
North Carolina’s Republican U.S. senators applauded President Trump’s nomination Monday of federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, where Kavanaugh would replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh is Trump’s chance to push the Supreme Court to the right. Kennedy was often a swing vote, but Kavanaugh is embedded in the Republican Party...
The wisest course is to craft political institutions and make procedural rules as if you don’t know which party will be on top in the future — because you really don't.
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...
A divided U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Ohio’s method of removing inactive voters from election registration rolls shouldn’t affect North Carolina’s maintenance of voting records too much, a spokesman for the state elections board says. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday, June 11, that Ohio complied with the National Voter Registration Act, often called the “motor...
Government institutions have strayed from their traditional trustworthy roles.
Facts contradict the notion of a rogue General Assembly drawing clearly unconstitutional election maps throughout this decade.
