The maps drawn by North Carolina's GOP could have given Republicans control of 11 of the state's 14 districts.
directed the GOP-controlled legislature to redraw the maps, stating they were partisan gerrymanders that violated the state constitution. This comes as all states and local governments redraw their political lines using the 2020 Census data. Nonprofit political groups are pushing nonpartisan changes to the redistricting process.control of 11 of the state's 14 districts.
The state Supreme Court gave the General Assembly until February 18 to submit a new redistricting proposal to the court. The GOP must provide an explanation of how they calculated the partisan fairness of the new boundaries.People gather during a rally to coincide with the Supreme Court hearings on the redistricting cases in Maryland and North Carolina, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2019.
Chief Justice Paul Newby, a Republican, said he didn't believe the courts have the authority to override redistricting. In his dissent, he wrote that the ruling"violates separation of powers by effectively placing responsibility for redistricting with the judicial branch, not the legislative branch as expressly provided in our constitution."
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