North Carolina’s legislative districts are set for the 2020 elections after the state Supreme Court refused on Friday to fast-track a redistricting appeal. That decision led the plaintiffs who successfully sued based on partisan bias claims to end their legal ...

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North Carolina judges on Monday blocked the state’s congressional map from being used in the 2020 elections, ruling that voters had a strong likelihood of winning a lawsuit that argued Republicans unlawfully manipulated district lines for partisan gain. The panel ...

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North Carolina voters asking state judges to block the use of the current congressional district boundaries next year say it’s obvious the lines are illegally tainted by partisan bias favoring Republicans. A three-judge panel heard arguments on Thursday on the ...

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A panel of federal judges formally backed off Tuesday the idea of requiring a new congressional map for North Carolina’s fall elections, one week after broaching the possibility when the judges declared the current lines illegal partisan gerrymanders. While declaring ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s congressional map is still unconstitutional, election advocacy groups and Democrats wrote July 11, even though the U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a lower court decision that threw out the map due to excessive partisanship. But lawyers ...

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