North Carolina – On January 9th, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that the state’s 2016 Plan violates the Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment, and Article I of the Constitution. Survey the news coverage.The panel ordered the legislature to redraw its congressional map and began the process of selecting a special master to redraw the map should the legislature fail to do so. The Defendants have appealed to the Supreme Court. Read analysis of this developing case from the Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN.
[…] stayed a lower court order to redraw North Carolina’s congressional districts. That court recently found the North Carolina map to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and ordered that the map be […]
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