Judges order North Carolina congressional districts redrawn quickly

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http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/north-carolina-gerrymandering-case/index.html

By Steve Almasy, CNN

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(CNN)Federal judges said Tuesday that North Carolina will have to quickly redraw its 13 congressional districts because the map is unconstitutionally partisan.

The three-judge panel rejected the previous map drawn by the Republican-controlled General Assembly, saying it violates the Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment, and Article I of the Constitution.

The judges gave the state about three weeks to file a new plan with the court so it will be in place before the 2018 midterms.

The opinion is the first federal court ruling to strike down a congressional map as representing a partisan gerrymander.


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[Phoenix61]

1. WooHoo!!! nt

[klook]

2. Wow. (nt)

[oasis]

3. Oprah should do her homework on all of this before announcing. nt

[dubyadiprecession]

4. The majority of those gerrymandered republican districts are lowly populated...

in comparison to the few Democratic districts with large (corralled) populations.

That folks, is how the GOP scum gerrymander a state.

[Blue_true]

7. By the Constitution, all Congressional districts must have the same number of people.

What republicans do is slice off small pieces of democratic leaning areas and combine them with massive landmass conservative areas so that the blue votes get overwhelmed. By doing that, republicans can take an area that should have four democratic representatives and reduce that number to one or two, picking up at least two seats for republicans.

[L. Coyote]

5. Great precedent to have going forward.

[mopinko]

6. i wonder if there is already a fair map out there.

i know there are folks out there proposing maps and methods.

[ProudLib72]

8. Rethugs say, "But how are we supposed to win bigly then?" nt