CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Expect more redistricting litigation in North Carolina backed by a national Democratic group that Eric Holder leads unless state Republicans accept anti-gerrymandering reforms this year, the former U.S. attorney general said Friday. Speaking to the University ...

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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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WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now. Instead, the justices are sending a dispute over North Carolina’s heavily Republican congressional districting map back to a lower court for ...

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