North Carolina not required to hold special election to fix racial gerrymandering, court rules
“They say justice delayed is justice denied.”
https://thinkprogress.org/north-carolina-court-special-election-gerrymandering-8fbdc37098e3
A federal court on Monday declined to order North Carolina to hold a special election before 2018 under new maps that do not pack black voters. Instead, the court simply ordered that new electoral maps be drawn by September 1.
In 2011, the North Carolina legislature redrew the boundaries of its election districts in a way that unconstitutionally harmed black voters. The legislature packed black voters into as few districts as possible, giving them less political influence. Since then, the illegally constituted legislature has passed a ban on local minimum wage increases, tax cuts for corporations, the notorious HB2 that limits civil rights protections for transgender people, and a 2013 voter suppression law that another court found targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”...
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