Here's What You Need To Know About Redistricting In NC
State lawmakers have started the process of implementing new political boundaries for the 2018 election, after federal judges invalidated 28 legislative districts for illegally gerrymandering black...
View ArticleLawmakers Approve Redistricting Guidelines
State lawmakers have approved a set of guidelines from which they will draw new political maps.
View ArticleWUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Jeremy Loeb
This week on the WUNCPolitics Podcast, a conversation with Jeremy Loeb , Morning Edition Host and reporter at Blue Ridge Public Radio. Jeremy joins Jeff on this politics podcast to discuss...
View ArticleNorth Carolina House Proposes New Legislative District Map
Mapmakers are proposing new districts for most members of the North Carolina House, a move forced after federal judges ruled state Republicans illegally gave too much emphasis to race in the current...
View ArticleHundreds Attend Legislative Redistricting Hearings
Scores of North Carolina residents turned out Tuesday evening to address members of the state House and Senate redistricting committees.
View ArticleProposed NC Legislative Maps Mean New Political Tug Of War
North Carolina lawmakers released new voting maps last weekend. The freshly-drawn district lines come after 28 House and Senate districts were found by the U.S. Supreme Court to be illegally...
View ArticleTop NC Court Takes Up Lawmakers Stripping Governor's Powers, Redistricting
North Carolina's highest court for the first time is wading into the long-running effort by Republican legislators to strip away as many powers as possible from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
View ArticleNorth Carolina House Approves GOP District Maps
Updated 3:15 p.m., August 20, 2017 The North Carolina House has approved a redrawing of dozens of district boundaries in response to federal court rulings throwing out nearly 20 districts approved in...
View ArticleHouse, Senate Don't Touch Each Other's Redistricting Plans
North Carolina House and Senate members are sticking with tradition by declining to interfere with the other chamber's proposed district boundaries.
View ArticleNC Redistricting Maps OKd, Head To Judges Next
The Republican-led General Assembly has given final approval to new political boundaries in largely party-line votes.
View ArticleThis Week In NC Politics: Advocacy On The State Supreme Court, Legislative...
This week in North Carolina politics, a conversation about judicial redistricting and Anita Earls’ race for state Supreme Court; the special master's legislative maps ; and objections from North...
View ArticleTrump Nominates Former Jesse Helms Lawyer As Eastern NC District Judge
Thomas Farr is a Raleigh-based lawyer who has counseled North Carolina Republicans on a multitude of racially divisive cases.
View ArticleNC Ordered To Redraw Voting Maps Set By GOP
Federal judges have ruled that North Carolina's congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid...
View ArticleFederal Court Rules North Carolina Congressional Map Unconstitutional
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state's congressional districts drawn by Republican lawmakers are too partisan. They described them as drawn to “entrench Republican domination of the state’s...
View ArticleNC Republicans Ask Supreme Court To Block Redistricting Order
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block enforcement of an order throwing out the state's congressional map because the lines were too partisan and...
View ArticleSupreme Court Delays Order For NC To Redraw Maps
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts by next week because of excessive...
View ArticleWUNCPolitics Podcast: Redistricting, A Judicial Nominee And Amazon HQ2
Thanks to winter weather, it was a slow work week for many in North Carolina. However, the political world trudged along with more redistricting and judicial developments.
View ArticleThis Week In NC Politics: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, A Class Size Bill and...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a class size bill, and North Carolina’s redistricting saga are among the issues in the news this week in state politics. Also, how open is North Carolina state’s government...
View ArticleUnder New North Carolina Maps, Two Republicans Jockey For One Senate Seat
If history is any indicator, turnout for the North Carolina primary on May 8th may be low, especially with no glitzy federal or statewide candidates on the ballot—fewer than 8 percent of voters cast a...
View ArticleLatest NC Redistricting Ruling Could Have National Impact
A federal court has again found North Carolina’s congressional district map to be unconstitutional, ruling that it was drawn to favor Republicans. The panel was reconsidering the case at the direction...
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