The right-leaning North Carolina Supreme Court threw out a ruling against gerrymandered districts in the state and upheld a law requiring photo ID to vote.
North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore and State Rep. Tricia Cotham discuss her joining the Republican Party.threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered districting in the state on Friday and also upheld a photo ID voting law in what is being touted as a victory for Republicans.
The recent partisan gerrymandering ruling from the newly formed court, in which conservatives have a 5-2 advantage, is expected to simplify the process for the Republican-controlled legislature to assist the GOP in securing additional seats in theWhen the court leaned Democrat in December, it threw out a state Senate map from the Republican-led state legislature and maintained congressional boundaries that had been drawn up by trial judges.
The ruling in December emerged from a landmark decision in February 2022 that ruled state courts have the ability to throw out district lines that would give an unfair advantage to one political party in a narrowly divided state.The Republicans on the court pushed back against the ruling, arguing that congressional districting should only be under the purview of elected lawmakers.
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