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Judges strike down NC state legislature lines as unconstitutional gerrymandering
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 03, 2019 04:45pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Will Doran |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 3, 2019 09:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | North Carolina’s political maps for the state legislature violate the state constitution and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections, a court has decided.
A panel of judges struck down the maps Tuesday, in a 357-page ruling that focused on the level of political partisanship used to draw them. The maps were drawn in 2017 to replace previous maps, drawn in 2011, that had also been ruled unconstitutional. Both sets of maps were drawn by North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature.
In Tuesday’s ruling, the judges gave the legislature just two weeks to draw new maps. The judges also told lawmakers they might simply reschedule the elections in 2020 if the legislature can’t come up with new maps in time. |
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