Republicans will pay for trying to be greedy.
North Carolina Supreme Court rejects redistricting map as unconstitutional https://t.co/TYcEV8ECgV
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 5, 2022
In a big decision, NC's Supreme Court just struck down the GOP gerrymander, 4-3.
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 5, 2022
Had Dems not won the 2018 Supreme Court race, this would have gone the other way.
2018 is the year that… the GOP tried to rig the election, only to have it spectacularly backfire. Let's recap.
NC could easily have drawn a 9-5 map and no one would have said anything, but they got greedy and tried to go for a 11-3-1.
— u〽️ichvoter 🌴🏳️🌈 (@umichvoter) February 5, 2022
Now they are risking a 8-6 or even a 7-7
in love with North Carolina Republicans having the chance to draw a bulletproof 9-5 gerrymander similar to the 8-5 one the state Supreme Court approved in 2020 and instead drawing a hilariously blatant 10-4-1 map that immediately got struck down
— seinfeld empath (@NickTagliaferro) February 5, 2022
And there it is: the NC Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling along party lines, strikes down the GOP congressional map that might have led to an 11R-3D split, orders NC's General Assembly to submit new maps by Feb. 18th. https://t.co/aYO2e88Jny pic.twitter.com/8fG3aAqgmx
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) February 4, 2022
Heading into today's NC ruling, I had assumed that a pro-Democratic ruling would probably add two Democratic-leaning CDs–one in Greensboro, the other in the rural northeastern part of the state.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 4, 2022
But based on this decision, the Democrats have more upside
Chief Justice Paul Newby accused the court’s majority of “seizing the opportunity to advance its agenda.” | Editorial https://t.co/451nEHSNqJ
— The Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) February 5, 2022
i hate to report that conservative election twitter is having a normal one. https://t.co/gfp22sYZxI pic.twitter.com/3Ahs5m2ByG
— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) February 5, 2022
The two new proposed NC congressional maps today won't earn rave reviews from redistricting art critics, but they would have a very real chance to pass legal muster by typical partisan fairness measures.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 16, 2022
Sad! 