North Carolina ruling could cost GOP House seats

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A North Carolina court ruling on Monday ordering the state legislature to redraw congressional district boundaries has Republican members of Congress reconsidering their future in what is almost certain to be a boon for Democrats.

The ruling by a panel of three state judges is likely to give Democrats the chance to compete for several more U.S. House districts in North Carolina, where Republicans hold 10 of the 13 seats. Republicans acknowledged Tuesday they could lose at least one, and as many as three, of those seats.

The judges, two Democrats and one Republican, ruled that the current district maps, in use since 2016, represented an "extreme partisan gerrymander" that violated a provision in the state constitution guaranteeing "free elections." The court order bars North Carolina from holding primary elections, scheduled for March 3, under the current boundary lines.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/north-carolina-ruling-could-cost-gop-house-seats/ar-AAJxSpq?ocid=spartanntp&pfr=1

[wiley]

1. No. It will allow them to be fairly elected, most likely to Democrats

Don't let this be framed as other than Republicans getting busted for stealing elections. It' the only way they often win anything.

Great name, BTW!

[mnhtnbb]

2. Prior to the Republican gerrymandering

from the 2010 election, there were 7 Dem and 6 Repub Congressional Reps from NC which really represented the purple nature of NC.

I would expect to see a similar outcome if new districts are fairly drawn.

[wishstar]

3. If all of Asheville is put back into Mark Meadows district, he could lose seat

Western NC had a Democratic rep before the gerrymandering removed half of Democratic Asheville from the mountain district and put it with Repub Hickory area while adding Repub areas.

[abqtommy]

4. I'm not sure I'd call leveling the political playing field a "boon to Democrats". It's more like

one step towards justice, fairness and securing the voting process. We've got a long way to go yet.