NC trial looks at partisan bias after US justices won’t
Lawyers for Common Cause, the state Democratic Party and more than 30 registered Democratic voters who sued contend Republican lawmakers so etched politics into the state House and Senate district lines that the constitutional rights of Democratic voters were violated.
North Carolina Gerrymandering Trial Could Serve As Blueprint For Other States
Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts can't intervene in cases where state lawmakers have aggressively drawn political boundaries to benefit one political party over another, a new front in the nation's redistricting battles opens in a North Carolina courtroom.
U.S. battle over partisan electoral maps to face major test in North Carolina
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled federal judges cannot curb partisan gerrymandering, reform advocates vowed to take their fight to state courts that retain the power to police the practice of drawing electoral lines for political advantage. The first major test of that strategy will be in North Carolina.
