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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Partisan gerrymandering: Republican map of North Carolina ruled illegal

Federal judges rule ‘invidious partisanship’ violates the constitution, striking down Republican-drawn district map that gave GOP a rock-solid advantage

Federal judges ruled Tuesday that North Carolina’s congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats.

The ruling marks the second time this decade that the GOP’s congressional boundaries in the state have been thrown out by a three-judge panel. In 2016, another panel tossed out two majority black congressional districts initially drawn in 2011, saying there was no justification for using race as the predominant factor in forming them. The redrawn map was the basis for a new round of lawsuits.

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