AP: North Carolina legislators finished redrawing House and Senate district maps Wednesday, beating a court-ordered deadline later this week. Now Republicans who drew them must see whether federal judges agree they’ve cured problems with racial bias in the previous maps.… Continue reading

WRAL: A federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s congressional districts will move forward, a panel of federal judges decided Tuesday, instead of being put on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court tackles issues relevant to the case. Common Cause v.… Continue reading

The News and Observer reports.  

Benjamin Cover has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review).  Here is the abstract: For three decades, the Court has failed to settle on a legal test for partisan gerrymandering, and such claims have uniformly failed – until… Continue reading

Steve Klepper: Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland stayed proceedings in Maryland’s political gerrymandering case, Benisek v. Lamone, pending the Supreme Court’s decision in the Wisconsin political gerrymandering case, Gill … Continue reading

News and Observer: People from across North Carolina concerned about the new maps proposed to be used to elect General Assembly members in 2018 had few supportive words on Tuesday for the lawmakers who had them drafted. With votes on… Continue reading