Anatomy of a North Carolina Gerrymander
After Republican candidates won two seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court in the 2022 midterms, giving the court a conservative majority, Republican lawmakers wasted no time in asking the court to reverse earlier rulings that partisan gerrymandering violated the state constitution.
The court’s new majority obliged, handing down a controversial opinion in late spring that abruptly abandoned any role for state courts in policing gerrymandering, declaring that gerrymandering claims were non-justiciable “political questions” off limits to the judiciary.
With overtly partisan line drawing no longer illegal, Republicans began preparing to undo the balance that had been established in the maps. The question wasn’t whether the maps would get worse — it was by how much.
The answer came this week: much worse. Under the new congressional map rushed through the legislature on a party-line vote, a balanced, 50–50 map that reflected North Carolina’s purple state politics was transformed into one that could elect as many as 11 Republicans and just 3 Democrats. (North Carolina’s governor does not have the power to veto election maps.)
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Anatomy of a North Carolina Gerrymander
A new congressional map takes the Tar Heel State from having one of the fairest maps in the country to its most biased — and voters of color are among the big victims.www.brennancenter.org
In other words, the Repub controlled NC SC followed the lead of the Repub controlled SCOTUS.
Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts
The Supreme Court rules in favor of South Carolina Republicans in voting map case
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If I were a person with a kind of orange hue, who wanted to play the role of the victim, I suppose I might claim the system is rigged against me. Even when it is so clearly not.
The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Undermines Democracy
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The Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity Ruling Undermines Democracy
Unfounded in both history and legal precedent, the decision poses a risk to our system of governance.www.brennancenter.org
The state was invaded from all of those Progressive Socialist Communist stalwarts. If things were so great in Prog areas, why did they leave? They end up infecting the new areas from the old areas they left. Rounding out the rough edges of the new areas is good. Then after that it must end.