NC’s top court halts March primary due to remapping suits
3 years ago

NC’s top court halts March primary due to remapping suits

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday pushed back the March election primaries for legislative, congressional and judicial seats to give state courts time to review lawsuits claiming the Republican-controlled legislature illegally gerrymandered some districts. “The court didn’t even articulate a legal or factual basis for suspending elections,” said GOP state Rep. Ralph Hise, one of the lawsuits’ defendants. “The Democrats on the Supreme Court want districts that elect more Democrats, so they’re blocking every election in the state until they get their way.” Over 1,400 people whom the State Board of Elections says had already filed across North Carolina this week will remain candidates for those same offices when filing resumes, unless they withdraw at that time, the order reads. Pat McCrory, U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former Rep. Mark Walker remain among the announced candidates for the GOP nomination, with state Sen. Jeff Jackson and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley among the Democratic hopefuls.

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Trailing North Carolina Supreme Court candidate asks that court to get involved in his race
6 days, 13 hours ago

Trailing North Carolina Supreme Court candidate asks that court to get involved in his race

Politico  

But Griffin went to the Supreme Court instead and asked the justices to rule by this coming Monday on his request to prevent a certificate from being issued to Riggs and to suspend the 10-day deadline to file an appeal in Wake County court. Five Republicans are on the seven-member Supreme Court, which has been a partisan flash point in …

The legal fray builds in a very close North Carolina Supreme Court election
2 weeks, 3 days ago

The legal fray builds in a very close North Carolina Supreme Court election

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Democratic Party sued on Friday to block the potential removal of tens of thousands of ballots tallied in an extremely close state Supreme Court race, saying state election officials would be violating federal law if they sided with protests initiated by the trailing Republican candidate. The lawsuit filed in Raleigh federal court comes as …

Voting group asks S. Carolina court to order redraw of US House districts that lean too Republican
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Voting group asks S. Carolina court to order redraw of US House districts that lean too Republican

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group that works to protect and expand voting rights is asking South Carolina’s highest court to order lawmakers to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts because they lean too far Republican. South Carolina’s congressional map was upheld two months ago in a 6-3 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said the state General Assembly did not use …

North Carolina legislators leave after veto overrides, ballot question, unfinished business
5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Carolina legislators leave after veto overrides, ballot question, unfinished business

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly wrapped up this year’s chief work session Thursday after overriding Democratic Gov. And while the House and Senate managed to approve $67.5 million to help for six months child care centers at risk of closing after federal grants expire, they couldn’t agree on setting aside close to $500 million for scholarships and …

US Supreme Court sends Arkansas redistricting case back to judges after South Carolina ruling
6 months, 2 weeks ago

US Supreme Court sends Arkansas redistricting case back to judges after South Carolina ruling

Associated Press  

The Supreme Court on Monday sent a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ 2021 U.S. House map back to a three-judge panel, ordering it to review the suit in light of the high court’s decision against similar claims of bias in a redistricting case from South Carolina. A three-judge panel last year dismissed the suit, which claimed the redrawn map violated the U.S. …

Kagan Gives Fiery Dissent On SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Racial Gerrymandering
7 months ago

Kagan Gives Fiery Dissent On SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Racial Gerrymandering

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority Thursday to allow South Carolina to proceed with its gerrymandered map of congressional districts led to a blistering dissent by Justice Elena Kagan, who argued that the redistricting was designed to weaken Black voters’ influence. The 6-3 ruling, led by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, overturns a lower court …

Supreme Court OKs shift of Black voters to shore up GOP congressional district
7 months ago

Supreme Court OKs shift of Black voters to shore up GOP congressional district

LA Times  

At issue in the South Carolina case was a congressional district in the Charleston area held by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state’s mapmakers may shift tens of thousands of Black voters to a different district if they were seeking to shore up a partisan advantage for a Republican candidate. In a 6-3 decision, …

South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional
8 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina to hold 2024 congressional elections with map previously ruled unconstitutional

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal court on Thursday ruled that this year’s congressional elections in South Carolina will be held under a map that it had already deemed unconstitutional and discriminatory against Black voters, with time running out ahead of voting deadlines and a lack of a decision on the case by the Supreme Court. After South Carolina’s Legislature, which …

North Carolina redistricting lawsuit tries `fair` election claim to overturn GOP lines
10 months, 3 weeks ago

North Carolina redistricting lawsuit tries `fair` election claim to overturn GOP lines

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Another lawsuit challenging North Carolina district lines for Congress and the legislature to be used starting this year seeks a new legal route to strike down maps when critics say they’ve been manipulated for political gain. Nearly a dozen voters are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court that asks judges to declare …

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor vetoes Republican map as another redistricting court fight looms
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor vetoes Republican map as another redistricting court fight looms

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. The veto came a day after five of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress, along with the GOP-controlled Legislature, asked the newest liberal member of the state Supreme Court not to hear a lawsuit that seeks to redraw congressional district maps ahead of the November election. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos accused Evers of trusting …

GOP lawmakers ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider redistricting ruling, schedule for new maps
11 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP lawmakers ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider redistricting ruling, schedule for new maps

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to stay and reconsider its finding that the state’s legislative district boundaries are unconstitutional. Attorneys representing a host of Republican state Senators filed a motion with the court Thursday saying they can’t meet the court’s Jan. 12 deadline for new maps. The court ordered the Legislature and other parties …

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit
1 year ago

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — The clock is running out on a Friday deadline for North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature to draw new legislative boundaries compliant with the Voting Rights Act for two Native American tribes who successfully sued for new lines. A federal judge last month ruled that the state’s 2021 redistricting map violates the landmark 1965 civil rights law in diluting …

North Carolina’s election maps for 2024 are racially biased, advocates say in lawsuit
1 year ago

North Carolina’s election maps for 2024 are racially biased, advocates say in lawsuit

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voting-rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Republicans and being used starting with the 2024 elections, saying legislative leaders unlawfully weakened the electoral influence of Black voters. “The General Assembly targeted predominantly Black voting precincts with surgical precision throughout the state in drawing and enacting the 2023 Plans, at …

Tennessee Supreme Court blocks decision to redraw state’s Senate redistricting maps
1 year ago

Tennessee Supreme Court blocks decision to redraw state’s Senate redistricting maps

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s highest court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision that lawmakers must redraw the state’s Senate maps in a ruling that means the current legislative districts will likely remain in place for the 2024 elections. The same trial judges ruled to temporarily block the Senate map in 2022, but the Supreme Court reinstated the districts …

New North Carolina congressional districts challenged in federal court on racial bias claims
1 year ago

New North Carolina congressional districts challenged in federal court on racial bias claims

Associated Press  

N.C. — North Carolina Black and Latino voters sued in federal court on Monday seeking to strike down congressional districts drawn this fall by Republican state legislators that they argue weaken minority voting power in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in central North Carolina challenges four districts where the plaintiffs contend GOP leaders …

North Carolina trial judges block election board changes made by Republican legislature
1 year ago

North Carolina trial judges block election board changes made by Republican legislature

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina trial judges on Thursday blocked portions of a new law that would transfer Democratic Gov. The new law, which went into effect after Republican lawmakers overrode Cooper’s veto, would increase the board to eight members appointed by the General Assembly based on the recommendations of top legislative leaders from both parties. A spokesperson for Senate …

Judges rule against Tennessee Senate redistricting map over treatment of Nashville seats
1 year, 1 month ago

Judges rule against Tennessee Senate redistricting map over treatment of Nashville seats

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Republican-drawn map for Tennessee’s Senate seats violates the state Constitution because lawmakers incorrectly numbered the legislative districts in left-leaning Nashville, which affects which years those seats are on the ballot, a panel of judges ruled Wednesday. According to Wednesday’s ruling, the state’s attorneys “conceded” that they would not defend the Senate map in court and instead …

North Carolina Republicans put exclamation mark on pivotal annual session with redistricting maps
1 year, 1 month ago

North Carolina Republicans put exclamation mark on pivotal annual session with redistricting maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to new redistricting maps poised to empower the state GOP for years to come. Legislative Republicans have worked to place a “very deliberative stamp” on North Carolina since they took control in 2011, said Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer. The “issues that we’re seeing focused on …

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year
1 year, 2 months ago

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday pitched new maps for the state’s congressional districts starting in 2024 that appear to threaten the reelection of at least three current Democratic U.S. House members. Senate redistricting committee leaders introduced two proposals that would rework the boundary lines for the state’s 14 U.S. House seats. “That’s a hard decision for the …

The Supreme Court on voting rights and gerrymanders: if you draw racist maps make sure you call them partisan.
1 year, 2 months ago

The Supreme Court on voting rights and gerrymanders: if you draw racist maps make sure you call them partisan.

Slate  

In this week’s big voting rights case, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning whether to uphold a South Carolina congressional map that is avowedly partisan. In arguments on Wednesday, it became clear that the high court’s conservatives would rather toss out the evidence the lower court used to reach its decision, …

Samuel Alito Really, Really, Really Wants to Save This Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina
1 year, 2 months ago

Samuel Alito Really, Really, Really Wants to Save This Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. According to past precedent, overturning the factual findings of that panel—including its weighing of the voluminous evidence and testimony of expert witnesses—would require the Supreme Court to find “clear error” in the district court’s findings. It appeared things might be going toward that …

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024
1 year, 3 months ago

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024

Associated Press  

Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. Another trial alleging racial violations in voting districts got underway Tuesday in Georgia, where Democrats also hope to make gains, while voting rights advocates in Ohio decided to drop a …

Lawsuit says Tennessee’s US House and state Senate maps discriminate against communities of color
1 year, 4 months ago

Lawsuit says Tennessee’s US House and state Senate maps discriminate against communities of color

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is facing its first court challenge over a congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year’s elections, a move that the plaintiffs say has unconstitutionally diluted the power of Black voters and other communities of color. By splintering Nashville into three Republican-majority districts that stretch into rural …

Utah high court scrutinizes process that sliced state’s most Democrat-heavy county into 4 districts
1 year, 5 months ago

Utah high court scrutinizes process that sliced state’s most Democrat-heavy county into 4 districts

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court grilled attorneys representing the state on Tuesday over their claim that courts shouldn’t intervene in the Republican-controlled Legislature’s decision to carve up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County into four congressional districts. In their lawsuit, they argue the Republican-drawn map “takes a slice of Salt Lake County,” which is the state’s most Democratic-leaning, “and …

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. In both Ohio and North Carolina, Republican state lawmakers contended in appeals that their state’s highest court had gone too far …

Supreme Court rejects GOP in North Carolina case that could have reshaped elections beyond the state
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court rejects GOP in North Carolina case that could have reshaped elections beyond the state

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state courts can curtail the actions of their legislatures when it comes to federal redistricting and elections, rejecting arguments by North Carolina Republicans that could have dramatically altered races for Congress and president in that state and beyond. The practical effect of Tuesday’s decision is minimal in North Carolina, where the state …

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Slate  

On Tuesday night, over the cries of hundreds of protesters, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact an unpopular 12-week abortion ban, a bill that they refused to debate in a public hearing. Barber said that he began this work after the Legislature’s “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on poor people: raising taxes on working-class families, cutting …

Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters
1 year, 7 months ago

Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether South Carolina’s congressional districts need to be redrawn because they discriminate against Black voters. The justices said Monday they would review a lower-court ruling that found a coastal district running from Charleston to Hilton Head was intentionally redrawn to reduce the number of Democratic-leaning Black voters and to make it …

Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone
1 year, 7 months ago

Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone

Slate  

I’m not certain North Carolina has become the most anti-democratic state in the union. Justice Anita Earls thundered in dissent that the ruling “stripped” North Carolina voters of the right to choose their elected officials and “demolished the Court’s standing as an independent check on the excesses of the other two branches of government.” But Newby wasn’t going to let …

N. Carolina justices hand GOP big wins with election rulings
1 year, 7 months ago

N. Carolina justices hand GOP big wins with election rulings

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who leads a national Democratic group whose affiliate helped support the redistricting litigation, …

N. Carolina justices quickly revisit redistricting, voter ID
1 year, 9 months ago

N. Carolina justices quickly revisit redistricting, voter ID

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court is revisiting this week whether a previous combination of justices got it wrong three months ago when declaring that the legislature produced illegal district lines tainted by excess partisanship and a photo voter identification law infected with racial bias. Senate leader Phil Berger, a named defendant in both cases, argues that actions …

SC Republicans to appeal redistricting case to Supreme Court
1 year, 10 months ago

SC Republicans to appeal redistricting case to Supreme Court

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal appeals court has denied South Carolina Republicans’ motion for a stay in the ongoing challenge over the state’s congressional district map. If the Supreme Court takes the case and affirms the federal panel’s ruling, the state’s coastal 1st District will not be redrawn until 30 days after the high court’s final decision. After the new …

N. Carolina Supreme Court to rehear voter ID, redistricting
1 year, 10 months ago

N. Carolina Supreme Court to rehear voter ID, redistricting

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The new Republican majority on North Carolina’s Supreme Court agreed on Friday to rehear redistricting and voter identification cases less than two months after the court’s previous edition, led by Democrats, issued major opinions going against GOP legislators who had been sued. Rather, the court said a case can be reheard “if the petitioner makes a satisfactory …

Group: N.C. request for redistricting rehearing ‘frivolous’
1 year, 10 months ago

Group: N.C. request for redistricting rehearing ‘frivolous’

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — An advocacy group that sued over redistricting lines in North Carolina told state Supreme Court justices Monday that previous rulings that blocked legislative and congressional district maps as illegal partisan gerrymanders should be left intact. Common Cause filed a response to Republican General Assembly leaders’ request earlier this month that the state’s highest court rehear redistricting lawsuits. …

N. Carolina justices: State Senate map must be drawn again
2 years ago

N. Carolina justices: State Senate map must be drawn again

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that state Senate boundaries drawn by Republican legislators — under which the court permitted this year’s elections to be conducted — remain tainted by partisan bias favoring the GOP and must be redrawn. Through Hudson’s opinion, the court also rejected Republican leaders’ wishes to have struck down the congressional redistricting …

Justices skeptical of elections case that could alter voting
2 years ago

Justices skeptical of elections case that could alter voting

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked in making rules for congressional and presidential elections. Republicans from North Carolina who brought the case to the high court argue that a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the elections clause gives state lawmakers virtually total control …

Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy
2 years ago

Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case, a Republican-led challenge asking the justices for a novel ruling that could significantly increase the power of state lawmakers over elections for Congress and the presidency. The Republican leaders of North Carolina’s legislature told the Supreme Court that the Constitution’s “carefully drawn lines place the regulation of …

NC Democrats’ parity in Congress delegation may be fleeting
2 years ago

NC Democrats’ parity in Congress delegation may be fleeting

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democrats celebrated winning what was billed as North Carolina’s lone toss-up race for the U.S. House this month, as state Sen. Wiley Nickel’s narrow victory over Republican Bo Hines in the 13th Congressional District helped weaken any national GOP midterm wave. GOP legislators vehemently opposed a split opinion by the state Supreme Court last winter that struck …

NC Democrats' parity in Congress delegation may be fleeting
2 years, 1 month ago

NC Democrats' parity in Congress delegation may be fleeting

The Independent  

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High stakes in N. Carolina court races with majority on line
2 years, 1 month ago

High stakes in N. Carolina court races with majority on line

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The two North Carolina Supreme Court seats up for election in November have taken on extra significance as the outcome could flip the court’s partisan makeup during a period of political polarization. Ervin, the grandson of late Watergate committee chairman Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., said he’s already met that standard during his appellate career, calling himself “pretty …

These Supreme Court cases could kill what remains of US democracy
2 years, 2 months ago

These Supreme Court cases could kill what remains of US democracy

Al Jazeera  

In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has dutifully laboured to erode the protections guaranteed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a civil rights era milestone that aimed to safeguard minority voters from racial discrimination. One of the high-profile cases that the Supreme Court is currently hearing deals with Alabama’s congressional redistricting map, which was implemented by that state’s …

Supreme Court to consider case that could radically reshape the country’s elections
2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court to consider case that could radically reshape the country’s elections

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court could soon grant state legislatures unconditional control over federal elections, clearing the way for lawmakers to gerrymander their states with impunity and pass voter restriction measures without interference from state courts. If the nation’s highest court rules in favor of allowing the gerrymandered map, it may do so based on a novel argument — the so-called …

Criticism over latest NC redistricting back at Supreme Court
2 years, 2 months ago

Criticism over latest NC redistricting back at Supreme Court

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Supreme Court returned to the state’s recent divisive round of redistricting on Tuesday, as justices heard further challenges to General Assembly and congressional district lines getting used for next month’s elections. In a 4-3 decision, the court’s Democratic justices declared that partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution and that the congressional and legislative lines approved …

Here are the major cases before the Supreme Court this fall
2 years, 2 months ago

Here are the major cases before the Supreme Court this fall

LA Times  

Here’s a look at some of the major cases to be heard by the Supreme Court in the term beginning Oct. 3. Since the 1978 case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, the court has held that colleges and universities may consider race as a “plus factor” for Black and Latino applicants to create a more diverse class. …

NC Supreme Court OKs speeding up redistricting arguments
2 years, 4 months ago

NC Supreme Court OKs speeding up redistricting arguments

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — In another remapping decision along partisan leanings, the North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to speed up arguments on further challenges to the boundaries for the state’s legislative seats and congressional districts. But the order said expediting all redistricting appeals was based on “the great public interest in the subject matter of this case, the importance of …

Judge declines to toss New York Assembly redistricting maps
2 years, 7 months ago

Judge declines to toss New York Assembly redistricting maps

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York judge refused Wednesday to throw out new political maps setting the boundaries of state Assembly districts, saying even though they were drafted improperly, opponents had waited too long to join the lawsuit challenging them in court. Previous court rulings struck down the party’s favored new maps for state Senate and U.S. House districts as …

NC Supreme Court taking over appeal on voting by offenders
2 years, 7 months ago

NC Supreme Court taking over appeal on voting by offenders

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court said on Friday it would take over a lawsuit seeking to change when felony offenders can vote again, rather than wait for intermediate-level appeals judges to decide whether it was right for a trial court to loosen restrictions. Friday’s Supreme Court decision, which didn’t identify whether some justices opposed accepting the case …

Task of drawing NY political maps falls to judge and scholar
2 years, 7 months ago

Task of drawing NY political maps falls to judge and scholar

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — After New York’s highest court threw out new congressional district maps drawn by the state Legislature, the task of redrawing them has fallen to a rural judge and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Democrats’ hopes of crafting an electoral map heavily favorable to their party suffered a big blow Wednesday when the state Court of Appeals …

Republicans Look To Cut Off Legal Paths To Challenge Partisan And Racial Gerrymandering
2 years, 8 months ago

Republicans Look To Cut Off Legal Paths To Challenge Partisan And Racial Gerrymandering

Huff Post  

Republicans want the Supreme Court to rule against the remaining paths for challenging partisan gerrymandering and racially discriminatory district maps. “Their best defense right now is for those who decide what the law is to change the law.” The Move To State Courts In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices ruled that federal courts are not the …

Tennessee high court reinstates new state Senate districts
2 years, 8 months ago

Tennessee high court reinstates new state Senate districts

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the new state Senate map drawn up by Republicans this year in redistricting, ruling that a lower panel of judges didn’t properly consider how blocking the map and extending the candidate filing deadline would harm elections officials and cause voter confusion. “We conclude that the trial court erred by granting …

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