- A North Carolina court on Tuesday struck down the Republican-drawn state legislative map as an illegal partisan gerrymander and gave lawmakers two weeks to enact new district lines for next year’s elections.
The decision is a victory for election reform advocates considering legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering in state courts despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year blocking such cases in federal courts. State Senate Leader Phil Berger, a Republican, criticized the case as an attempt to “game” the redistricting process but signaled lawmakers would not appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court decision did not explicitly bar state courts from evaluating gerrymandering cases based on state constitutions, which sometimes have language that goes further than the federal version. North Carolina’s constitution, for instance, has a free elections clause, which has no counterpart in the U.S. constitution.Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a similar ruling, tossing the state’s U.S. congressional map and commissioning an independent expert to redraw the lines.
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This is excellent news. It's even better news that Republicans are not challenging the decision.
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Holy crap 😲 A 350 page decision. Not normal.
Americans have to cheat in order to win
So let's let independent Democrats draw the lines and cheat like normal
Duh
The cherry trees blossom in the fall there, apparently.
Good.
It IS! Fix it
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