Federal court orders new NC legislative elections in 2017
Source: WRAL
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers must redraw their legislative districts by March 15 and hold new elections by the end of next year, a federal court ruled Tuesday.
That order follows up on a ruling from this summer that found lawmakers had unconstitutionally relied on race when they drew 28 state House and Senate districts.
Although lawmakers had told the court they should be given more time to redraw their districts and should not have to hold elections until 2018, the three-judge panel disagreed.
"This gives the State a total of seven months from the time the districts were held to be unconstitutional, which is longer than it took the 2011 legislature to redistrict the entire state," read the order, which was drafted by a three-judge federal district court panel.
Read more: http://www.wral.com/federal-court-orders-new-nc-legislative-elections-in-2017/16289906/
This is SERIOUSLY important. We will have a Democratic Governor AND Attorney General to ensure the redistricting goes as necessary; will we have the resources and will to fight for every legislative seat to get control back?
(nb - I will be reaching out to my DNC and fundraising aquaintances to see what we can do).
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