All tagged gerrymandering
Voting rights groups in North Carolina filed a sweeping redistricting lawsuit last Tuesday that claims the Republican-led legislature violated federal law by racially gerrymandering the state House, state Senate and congressional plans for election districts.
Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement on the latest GOP gerrymandering:
Raleigh, N.C. — Congresswoman Deborah Ross released the following statement on North Carolina Republicans’ extreme, gerrymandered maps. If any of these maps are enacted, she plans to run to continue representing Wake County – the community she has represented for two terms in Congress and served for more than a decade in the General Assembly.
Voters told legislators Wednesday they are sick of gerrymandering because deeply partisan election districts erode democracy and make lawmakers unresponsive to residents' needs and opinions.
The North Carolina General Assembly is going to stay in Republican hands after the 2022 midterms. For state Democrats, this is a bitter pill to swallow. That they’ve already managed to swallow it, however, is evident in their manifest failure to recruit enough candidates to put up a credible fight this year for control of the legislature.
The trial court in the redistricting case North Carolina League of Conservation Voters v. Hall rejected a remedial congressional map drawn by the General Assembly based on recommendations from three "special masters" they appointed to inspect that map.
