BREAKING: NC Supreme Court rules on 5-2 conservative lines that "there is no judicially manageable standard by which to adjudicate partisan gerrymandering claims," strikes down prior liberal court's rulings on voting maps.
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This allows GOP lawmakers to go back to the drawing board on state House and state Senate maps. We were already going to have a redrawn congressional map. The high court has also allows a 2018 photo ID law to take effect going into the 2024 election.
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It's important to note there are other appeals of the voter ID law, so that future is less clear than the redistricting ruling, which gives GOP lawmakers the ability to go back to the drawing board to enact new maps ahead of 2024 election.
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Updated with more info and lawmaker reactions. In dissenting opinion, Justice Anita Earls writes, "An injustice that is so glaring, so lawless and such a betrayal to the democratic values upon which our constitution is based will not stand forever"
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@BryanRAnderson
Of course. The GOP say it cant be done. Thats because they’re corrupt. It certainly can be and has been done
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We law people do it all the time. Quantifying and drawing lines re seemingly amorphous abstract concepts is a lot of what we do. As to districts, we can apply standards of compactness, adherence to demographic distributions of people, limited number of corners, etc.
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@ggreeneva
Perversion of Justice to go along with all the other Republican perversions.
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@BryanRAnderson
Surely in this era of data and AI, fair and democratic boundaries could be drawn without political influence from either party.
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@BryanRAnderson
It seems like "one person; one vote" representation would be a good place to start.
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@BryanRAnderson
Huh. Weird, because there really wasn’t a judicially manageable standard to rehear this already-decided case.
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