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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article234668747.html
This is great news for NC, but also huge for national politics because legislature elected in 2020 will draw Congressional maps post 2020 census.
In 2016, Trump won NC 50.46% of NC vote, but Republicans won 10 of 13 (77%) of NC Congressional seats, and were bragging that was only because they couldn't draw maps to make it 11 out of 13.
North Carolina’s political maps for the state legislature are unconstitutional 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.
The judges found that “The North Carolina Supreme Court has long and consistently held that ‘our government is founded on the will of the people,’ that ‘their will is expressed by the ballot.’”
And that fact helped the judges conclude that the maps violated the state constitution because “it is the carefully crafted maps, and not the will of the voters, that dictate the election outcomes in a significant number of legislative districts and, ultimately, the majority control of the General Assembly.”
This is great news for NC, but also huge for national politics because legislature elected in 2020 will draw Congressional maps post 2020 census.
In 2016, Trump won NC 50.46% of NC vote, but Republicans won 10 of 13 (77%) of NC Congressional seats, and were bragging that was only because they couldn't draw maps to make it 11 out of 13.