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Monday, February 7th, 2022

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map

Author:     Ally Mutnick
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     02/04/2022 07:47 PM EST
 Link: North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map
Stephan:   Here is some good news from North Carolina about voting fairness in that state. In spite of everything the Republican legislature and the Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court could do to sustain blatant racist gerrymandering, the court as a whole ruled against the Republicans, “Achieving partisan advantage incommensurate with a political party’s level of statewide voter support is neither a compelling nor a legitimate governmental interest.”
A lawmaker studies a district map during a joint select committee meeting on redistricting in Raleigh, N.C. on July 26, 2017. Credit: Gerry Broome/AP

North Carolina’s state Supreme Court handed Democrats one of their biggest legal victories yet in the fight over redistricting, striking down a GOP-drawn congressional map that could have given Republicans control of 11 of the state’s 14 districts.

In a ruling released Friday evening, the justices split 4-3 along party lines in deeming the current map an illegal partisan gerrymander that is “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.” The state Supreme Court gave the General Assembly until Feb. 18 to submit a new redistricting proposal to the court — or a trial court will approve a new plan.

The decision is a resounding win for Democrats — and the latest sign yet that their legal strategy is equalizing the House battlefield and giving them a check over Republicans in several key states. It’s left Democratic operatives optimistic that they will emerge from redistricting in 2022 in better […]

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2 Comments

  1. John B Alexander on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 9:09 am

    But what if SCOTUS intercedes as they did in Georgia reversing a similar decision

  2. John B Alexander on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 9:17 am

    Sorry, SCOTUS was Alabama not Georgia