Opinion: Fair elections just won a victory in the courts. Now the Republican assault begins. https://t.co/LjXlRCxde3
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 28, 2018
Federal judges have affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship. https://t.co/waDdB7ISlo
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 28, 2018
Here's how gerrymandered North Carolina's congressional map is. Republicans won 10 of 13 seats in 2016 despite Trump's narrow win statewide. A nonpartisan map like the one below could have seen Dems win 2-5 more districts had it been in effect this decade https://t.co/bjwahIZyEZ pic.twitter.com/yI2LczFwpx
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018
If North Carolina were required to redistrict, would be worth another ~2 seats or so for Democrats. Although with a high margin for error because of all of this happening at such a late date. https://t.co/uSQZ9IsPyX
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 27, 2018
Under somewhat similar circumstances in 1996 in Texas, the state held nonpartisan blanket primaries (basically what they do in Louisiana) on the November election date and then runoffs in December in cases where no candidate won a majority.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 27, 2018
BREAKING: Federal court rules that plaintiffs in North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case have standing to pursue claims (with one exception) and affirms earlier ruling that congressional map is unconstitutional. https://t.co/kHGyAQUnds #fairmaps 1/
— Michael Li (@mcpli) August 27, 2018
The federal court is not ruling out throwing out North Carolina's current congressional plan for the 2018 election. Raises possibility of having a primary in November, followed by a general election before the new congress is seated.
— Sam Levine (@srl) August 27, 2018
Since Republicans took over North Carolina's legislature in 2010 & began their all-out assault on democracy, they have gerrymandered:
Congress
State legislature
County commissions
City councils
School boards
District courts
All but the last have gotten struck down at least once— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018
Court says it has not yet decided whether to give the North Carolina legislature the opportunity to attempt to redraw congressional map, but says that if the NC lege wants to redraw map it needs to finish process by 9/17 at 5 p.m. #fairmaps 3/ pic.twitter.com/Jq2r8uWk5a
— Michael Li (@mcpli) August 27, 2018
North Carolina Republicans literally admitted to partisan gerrymandering to defend themselves from racial gerrymandering claims. They stated loudly that they drew a 10R-3D gerrymander because they (rightly) thought 11R-2D was impossible https://t.co/7X1KVOMaX2
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) August 27, 2018
BREAKING: Federal court strikes down North Carolina's congressional districts due to partisan gerrymandering.
See how NC's districts have changed over time ↓https://t.co/WP4uz9QgiI pic.twitter.com/V056oyglHW
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 27, 2018
Sad! 