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Common Cause v. Lewis

Common Cause successfully challenged North Carolina’s state legislative map. After some of the map was struck down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in 2017, leaders in the legislature announced they would redraw districts on partisan grounds. On September 3, 2019, a three-judge trial court struck down the districts as a violation of the North Carolina Constitution.

Common Cause, North Carolina Democratic Party, Individual Voters Sue in North Carolina State Court Over Partisan Gerrymandering of North Carolina General Assembly

Federal District Court Affirms Landmark Ruling Against Partisan Gerrymandering in North Carolina

RALEIGH, NC – A three-judge federal district court panel in Greensboro again ruled in Common Cause v. Rucho that the NC General Assembly violated the U.S. Constitution in 2016 when legislators manipulated congressional districts for partisan advantage. Appeals of three-judge panel redistricting decisions go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, so the case could be heard there in the next year.

2017: A year of momentum in the fight for reform

From the effort to end gerrymandering, to building the next generation of our state's leaders, we look back at a year of grassroots power in North Carolina.

Voting & Elections 06.5.2017

CCNC statement on US Supreme Court ruling against gerrymandered NC legislative districts

The US Supreme Court rejected a request to review a lower court ruling that found NC lawmakers unconstitutionally gerrymandered the state's legislative districts along racial lines.

The time NC GOP lawmakers boasted about their partisan gerrymander

NC lawmakers responded to a court ruling against their unconstitutional racial gerrymander by creating a blatant partisan gerrymander

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