U.S. District Court Orders North Carolina to Implement New Districts for Some Legislative Races

On January 19, a 3-judge U.S. District Court issued a 92-page opinion in Covington v State, m.d., 1:15cv-399. It orders the state to use districts drawn up by the court’s expert, for state legislature. The invalidated districts had already been held to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

This case has nothing to do with the North Carolina case over whether the U.S. House districts constitute an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. That case, Rucho v Common Cause, had resulted in a recent U.S. District Court order striking down the U.S. House districts. But on January 18, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay in that case (17A745), so the current U.S. House districts will be used in 2018. Justices Ruth Ginsburg and Elena Sotomayor voted to deny the stay. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.


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U.S. District Court Orders North Carolina to Implement New Districts for Some Legislative Races — 4 Comments

  1. NC — what black/white Voters are NOT donkeys/elephants respectively ???

    Even more *expert* racist rigged gerrymander districts than before ???

    Has Civil WAR 2 started in NC ???


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  2. The district court had never made a ruling that that the districts were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. They had apparently avoided issuing an order so as to (1) prevent the legislature from appealing; or (2) remedying any perceived problems. They instead hired the special master to draw a new map, and issued it days before filing begins. Previously, they refused to let the legislature depose the special master on his past relationships with the plaintiffs.

    Most of the districts that had been invalidated were based on the federal court interpreting the North Carolina Constitution. They should have left that for the NC Supreme Court. After all, they conceded that the NC Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Whole County Provision is so ambiguous that they could not evaluate the plaintiff’s claims. If the plaintiffs want to pursue that claim they are going to have to do that in state court.

    You are naive if you think the two cases have nothing to do with each other. The judges in the 3-judge panels overlap. The legislative-case panel is sulking after the SCOTUS slapped them down last summer. The congressional-case panel refused to stay their decision, so that the SCOTUS had to do so. The next day, the legislative-case panel finally issued their ruling.

  3. How many robot party HACKS [IE gangster OLIGARCHS] involved on all sides — legis, exec, judic ???

    See the 476-1815 DARK AGE regimes — which continue.

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  4. Now quite dubious to predict that ANY future politics event *WILL* happen.

    See the END of the Roman Republic in 120 BC-27 BC.

    See the END of the Germany Weimar Republic in 1929-1934.

    See the END of the France Third Republic in 1940 — due to the Germany W.R. end.

    USA regime shutdown tonight — due to the gerrymander minority rule HACKS.

    Sound Democracy General Quarters !!!
    This is NO drill.

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