North Carolina, GOP and congressional map
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The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve the new map Wednesday. It redraws the state's 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both seats.
A newly drawn congressional map in North Carolina meant to benefit Republicans is facing its first legal challenge as voters claim it's racially discriminatory.
The new map replaces an only two-year-old congressional map that was already aggressively gerrymandered in Republicans’ favor.
North Carolina no longer has any particularly competitive Congressional districts, thanks to the new map passed this week at President Donald Trump’s request.
After the N.C. General Assembly approved new voting maps earlier this week, there will likely be a greater number of Republican congressmen in D.C. representing the Tar Heel State following next year’s midterm elections.
A judge heard arguments Thursday about Utah's new proposed congressional maps and the statistical tests lawmakers picked to evaluate their fairness.
Judge Dianna Gibson heard from three experts criticizing a new congressional map adopted by Republican lawmakers as an outlier that would create four safe Republican seats. Lawyers for the Legislature will present their defense on Friday.
The votes aren’t there for redistricting,” said a spokesman for the state’s Senate GOP, the president’s first major setback in his redistricting push ahead of next year’s elections.
Ohio Republicans have still not proposed a congressional map, and it’s a week away from their constitutional deadline to pass a bipartisan proposal. The first state redistricting commission meeting ended in jeers from the public,
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