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9 Feb 2018, 5:56 am by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court partly granted a request from North Carolina Republicans to block a voting map drawn by a federal court. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 6:05 am by Derek Black
According to local reports, the statute was passed by the republican controlled legislature as a way of retaining the party's... [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:30 pm by Lyle Denniston
  The denial of the plea to speed up the North Carolina case very likely means that the Court will take no action on the North Carolina dispute until after it has decided the other two cases. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 1:49 pm by Amy Howe
On January 18, the justices granted a request by Republican legislators in North Carolina to block a ruling by a three-judge federal court that struck down that state’s federal congressional maps as the product of partisan gerrymandering, and the Pennsylvania legislators and voters had hoped for the same result in their case. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 6:12 am by Jim Sedor
North Carolina – In Power Struggle with GOP Lawmakers, Cooper Wins Election Board Revamp LawsuitRaleigh News and Observer – Anne Blythe | Published: 1/26/2018 The North Carolina Supreme Court limited the Republican-dominated Legislature’s efforts to minimize Democratic Gov. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 4:49 am by Edith Roberts
” At Mother Jones, Pema Levy maintains that because the Supreme Court has put a hold on lower-court orders requiring that new electoral maps be drawn “[i]n Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, [where] Democratic plaintiffs have successfully convinced federal district courts that their states’ political maps [are] unconstitutional,” voters in those states will be “stuck in unfairly drawn districts for yet another election cycle. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 10:24 pm by Jim Sedor
North Carolina – Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks North Carolina Gerrymandering RulingNew York Times – Adam Liptak and Alan Blinder | Published: 1/18/2018 The U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 12:54 pm by Amy Howe
And indeed, the justices only acted on the appeals filed by Texas governor Greg Abbott; they did not say anything about the fate of another appeal, filed by the Texas Democratic Party, asking the court to weigh in on allegations of partisan gerrymandering in Texas. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 4:49 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Slate – Mark Joseph Stern: “On Tuesday, a federal district court made history by striking down North Carolina’s congressional map. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 6:59 am by NCC Staff
In the past, there have been allegations that both major parties in North Carolina redrew election maps to their liking. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
While Fillmore came in third in the 1856 election, he gained 21 percent of the popular vote and 8 electoral votes, which contributed to the defeat of John Fremont, the nominee of the new Republican Party. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 9:30 pm by Series of Essays
Supreme Court, and congressional Republicans considering ways to constrain the administrative state, what are the best legal options for reforming Chevron? [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 9:07 am by Daniel J. Hemel, Eric A. Posner
However, former President George Washington, then-President John Adams, and members of the Federalist Party who were hostile to France condemned Dr. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 2:00 am by NCC Staff
However, South Carolina (November 13, 1865), Alabama (December 2, 1865), North Carolina (December 4, 1865) and finally Georgia on December 6, 1865 agreed to ratify the amendment. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 7:05 pm by Jim Sedor
It is a system that both Republicans and Democrats now fully rely upon. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Combined with $5,000 rewards offered by the state and the North Carolina Republican Party, the FBI reward brings the total reward money offered to $20,000. [read post]
10 Sep 2017, 8:52 am by Smita Ghosh
” The same publication contains a review of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, in which “historian Nancy MacLean establishes that the Republican Party of today has been entirely transformed,” to “a party of extreme libertarians whose goal is not to conserve what we have, but to destroy democracy” and advance “the corporate takeover of public resources. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 7:28 am by Thomas Wolf
When states like Wisconsin or North Carolina, which have vibrant political cultures that frequently produce close statewide elections and switches in party control of statewide seats, are locked into the same legislative slates dominated by one party, voters also lose their right to a representative government. [read post]