In these political times the last rationalization of liberals tired of losing is the cry that everything they don’t like legislatively is because of the “gerrymander.” On NBC, CNN and MSNBC in May 2023, Gov. Roy Cooper said: “Technologically, diabolical gerrymandering. Some of the worst in the country.” He didn’t like limitations on abortion or...
On Nov. 8, there will be 84 Supreme Court seats on the ballot in 30 states. North Carolina’s two state Supreme Court races are second only to Illinois in the list of highest spending on ad campaigns for state Supreme Court races nationwide. Republican and Democrat groups are funding ad campaigns to the tune of...
Based on a 4-3 vote from the state Supreme Court, a congressional election map drawn by legislators gets tossed out. The court substitutes its own map for 2022 elections. The new map tips the scale toward the Democratic Party. The state in question is not North Carolina. It’s Pennsylvania. Three days after N.C. legislative leaders...
State legislative leaders are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal dispute over a new congressional map for North Carolina. Lawmakers filed Friday for an emergency stay of a state court ruling. That ruling established a court-imposed map for this year’s congressional elections. Based on recommendations from an appointed group of special...
Do campaign contributions from special interest groups influence judicial candidates when they reach the bench? If you ask North Carolina progressives, the answer will be: it depends. Their answer will depend on whichever answer helps advance their cause at the moment. This has become clear in the recent debate over whether state Supreme Court Justice...
As the Biden administration and Congress struggle with plummeting approval numbers, a battle is being waged in North Carolina and other states over who will control the drawing of congressional districts. The 2022 elections could turn the balance of power to Republicans in Congress. The latest Cygnal poll shows 51% of likely voters surveyed said...
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...
A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps. The panel of two Republican Superior Court judges and one Democratic colleague rejected critics’ arguments that mapmakers engaged in unconstitutional partisan and racial gerrymandering. The 260-page order also grants the State Board of Elections’ request to resume candidate filing for 2022...
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,...
A day after N.C. lawmakers approved new maps for legislative and congressional elections, plaintiffs linked to former Obama-era U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are going to court to block the congressional map. A lawsuit filed late Friday in Wake County Superior Court labels the map a partisan gerrymander. Critics say the map “specifically violates the...
The N.C. House passed its district map proposal during evening sessions Tuesday, Nov. 2. The Senate is expected to vote on the N.C. House district map on Thursday. Redistricting maps do not go before Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, driving more pressure on the legislative process by opposition groups. The maps were drawn after more than...
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