Federal judges find NC legislative districts unconstitutional

[TexasTowelie]

Source: The Charlotte Observer

A panel of federal judges has ruled that 28 of 170 state legislative districts are unconstitutional because they are racially gerrymandered.

Elections can proceed this year, the order said, because postponing the election would cause “undue disruption,” the ruling said. But the legislature must redraw the districts in the next legislative session for use in 2018.

The judges concluded that “race was the predominant factor motivating the drawing of all challenged districts,” the ruling says.

The ruling issued Thursday follows a decision last winter that found that two of the state’s congressional districts were racial gerrymanders. The legislature had to redraw all 13 districts to comply with the court order, and congressional primaries were delayed.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article95087442.html

[rdking647]

1. the state should have to redraw them this year. or lese have a computer do it

[Xipe Totec]

2. I think undue disruption is just what they deserve.

Waiting till after the presidential elections is absolute abdication.

[Iggo]

5. In fact, I would say that's due disruption.

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As in they got it coming.

[Judi Lynn]

8. They could manage it if they were ordered, no doubt whatsoever. n/t

[Dustlawyer]

3. Since the politicians who drew and voted for those maps

violated their oaths to the Constitution, they should be impeached!

[cstanleytech]

4. Impeached and imprisoned and not just a measly little prison sentence of a few days, weeks or

months either rather it should be for atleast 10 years without parole.

[Hulk]

6. Damn regulations and the law...

If not for the courts, these bastards, and most likely Democrats as well, would totally manipulate elections so that the peoples' voice wouldn't mean squat.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. And the absence of Scalia continues to reverberate and impact

this country.

On extremely rare occasions do I have a sense of relief from anyone's death, but I will make an exception in Antonin's case. The GOP has done itself no favors by fucking with the supreme robes as long as they have. I wonder when the penny will drop.

[maxrandb]

9. But Chief Justice Roberts and his Conservative

dickheads on the Supreme Court told us this kind of stuff was all behind us.

Oh to get a big enough majority to Impeach this prick and that worthless Thomas "M-effer"