'This Supreme Court ruling will go down as one of the gravest assaults on democracy ever in North Carolina,' said Bob Phillips of CommonCauseNC. 'Extreme partisan gerrymandering has been legalized and it will be weaponized against voters.'
The ruling enables North Carolina Republicans to redraw state and U.S. congressional districts in a self-serving way. This has major national implications because it paves the way for the GOP to expand its narrow U.S. House majority in 2024 and potentially beyond.
Notably, the discarded congressional map was projected to give Republicans control of 11 of the state's 14 U.S. House districts. The court-ordered map used during the 2022 midterms, by contrast, led to a 7-7 split that reflects the state's battleground status. As a result of Friday's ruling, Republicans are poised to recreate the rigged map thrown out last year, potentially gaining as many as four U.S. House seats in 2024.
With Friday's 5-2 decision, Republican justices overturned the court's previous rulings declaring partisan gerrymandering illegal, thus granting state lawmakers the power to remake legislative and congressional maps as they see fit, with few if any checks from the judiciary. ;“Justice Earls, dissenting from the North Carolina Supreme Court's 5;𠄲 decision greenlighting GOP gerrymandering once again:\n\n"A Republican-controlled Court [is] seeking to ensure that extreme partisan gerrymanders favoring Republicans are established." https://t.
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