North Carolina not required to hold special election to fix racial gerrymandering, court rules

[turbinetree]

A federal court on Monday declined to order North Carolina to hold a special election before 2018 under new maps that do not pack black voters. Instead, the court simply ordered that new electoral maps be drawn by September 1.

In 2011, the North Carolina legislature redrew the boundaries of its election districts in a way that unconstitutionally harmed black voters. The legislature packed black voters into as few districts as possible, giving them less political influence. Since then, the illegally constituted legislature has passed a ban on local minimum wage increases, tax cuts for corporations, the notorious HB2 that limits civil rights protections for transgender people, and a 2013 voter suppression law that another court found targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

Despite the damage done, a panel of three federal judges on Monday reversed a 2016 federal court order requiring special elections.

https://thinkprogress.org/north-carolina-court-special-election-gerrymandering-8fbdc37098e3

This ruling should be a wake-up call to everyone that in the near future the United States Supreme Court is going to rule and make a decisions on gerrymandering on a national basis, and with Roberts and others in charge-------------watch out, we need to start putting political and ground game pressure on this court-----------------I do not trust Roberts, his past speaks volumes, look no further than the Holder vs Shelby Case and the gutting the voting rights act

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This is why voting 3rd or staying home has killed us, literally

But President Donald Trump is nominating judges — filling a record number of judicial vacancies — who could make that less likely. Trump recently nominated Thomas Farr, a lawyer who defended the North Carolina legislature’s redistricting map and its 2013 voter suppression law, to be a federal judge.

I tried to warn people, but they wouldnt listen.

Damage is done for the next 50 years. I might stop caring pretty soon since so many dont.

[turbinetree]

2. And now we got some altra right wing hypocrite that was forced down our collective throats

and he still thinks the world is still flat..................

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Worse, 50 million so called adult Americans love everything he does and says.

The rest of the human family has to make a decision about the USA, we cant be allowed to go on like this, they know it.

THey know trump will get the human race killed.