our Congressional district moves westward, loses Onslow and Currituck
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 10:57 am
By: John Steed
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WRAL recently came out with an editorial on Moore v. Harper, a United States Supreme Court case on who gets to draw North Carolina’s congressional districts.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One day after Carolina Journal first broke the news, North Carolina’s westernmost member of the U.S. House, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, confirmed via video in a tweet he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last year, a Superior Court panel in North Carolina declared the state’s congressional districts an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Not all pictures are worth a thousand words. But the picture of North Carolina’s new congressional map tells an important story.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge panel unanimously upheld North Carolina’s new congressional districts, just in time for 2020 candidates to start filing.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court rejects call to review legislative districts, so they're set for next year's election
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 10:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the map drawing progresses in the General Assembly in the wake of the Harper v Lewis preliminary injunction, all of the maps so far produced by members of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting have either an 8-5 or 7-6 likely split in favor of Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 2:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed a new set of congressional districts today. Within an hour, the same Democratic organization that had sued against the previous map said that they would sue over the new map as well.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 2:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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N.C. lawmakers so far have spent two days huddled around computers in a garishly lit legislative committee room, working to fit the puzzle pieces in what will become newly redrawn congressional districts.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Go ahead and try to “Sue ‘til you’re blue.” That’s what leading Republicans said to the Democrats going to court over partisan gerrymanders in North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 4:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin named a three-judge Superior Court panel to hear the Common Cause v. David Lewis redistricting challenge.
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 6:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge Superior Court panel agreed with the NAACP and other plaintiffs that the General Assembly violated the state constitution's prohibition on changing legislative district boundaries in the middle of a decade
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 11:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing court fights over constitutional amendments, congressional districts, and other election issues have placed North Carolina in national headlines
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina's 2011 congressional district maps were illegal. NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes responded below
Published: Monday, May 22nd, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Legislative redistricting reform proponents on the Left have become more vocal since Republicans took control of the legislature in 2010
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2017 @ 9:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that convinced a panel of federal judges to toss out North Carolina’s legislative redistricting maps want new districts drawn during a special session in January 2017
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed the lower court ruling on North Carolina's congressional districts stand.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 10:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take a second look at a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2011 redistricting plan, as the state made an emergency appeal to the justices to stay a trial-court order invalidating the 1st and 12th Congressional Districts
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What started out as a mission to tweak a few districts to bring the 1st and 12th congressional districts in line has resulted in radical change for a lot more voters and some political favors (as well as hits).
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 1:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) released the following statement on the newly proposed Congressional districts
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 7:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed a proclamation calling the General Assembly to convene for an extra session and issued the following statement.
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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