To many legal experts, it’s hard to believe that Republican legislative leaders deliberately redrew new voting maps for the state House and Senate – as ordered by a three-judge federal court – without incorporating race as one of the nine criteria guiding the process. After all, it was the abusive, and according to the US Supreme Court, illegal use of race by Republican mapmakers in drawing the 2011 redistricting plan that earned the ire of the federal court – namely the stacking and packing of black voters into 28 of 170 districts across the state in order to severely weaken their influence in legislative races, thus giving the GOP super-majorities in both houses.
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What kind of legislative voting district maps will the Republican leadership of the N.C. General Assembly?
Noting that the N.C. Republican legislative leadership is “dragging their feet” about doing anything that would fairly represent voters when it comes to redistricting, U.S. Rep. Alma Adams says they
Supreme Court rejects N.C. General Assembly voting rights actions To the Editor: Today [Monday, May 15] we experience a victory for justice that is unimaginably important for African-Americans, Latinos, all
BY CASH MICHAELS FOR THE CHRONICLE As Republican lawmakers had hoped, the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a hold on
William J. Barber Guest Columnist In recent years, since extremists took over the GOP in North Carolina, my home state
BY CASH MICHAELS FOR THE CHRONICLE Whatever credibility the Republican-led North Carolina Supreme Court currently has would be “totally eroded”
AP Photo/Jonathan Drew BY JONATHAN DREW ASSOCIATED PRESS HILLSBOROUGH — Investigators combed through shards of glass, looked for residue of
It might be hard to believe, but African-Americans voted in large numbers for GOP candidates after they received the right
