{"id":137039,"date":"2018-09-05T23:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/north-carolinas-gop-manage-to-successfully-run-out-the-clock-on-gerrymandering.html"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:19:26","slug":"north-carolinas-gop-manage-to-successfully-run-out-the-clock-on-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/north-carolinas-gop-manage-to-successfully-run-out-the-clock-on-gerrymandering.html","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina’s GOP manage to successfully run out the clock on gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though a federal court found that the state legislature’s districting plan is rigged to favor the GOP and “constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment, and Article I of the Constitution,” the same court has now ruled that there’s not enough time for the state to redraw a new plan and have it in place for the November mid-terms without impacting campaigning and voter turn-out.<\/p>\n

While Democrats are a plurality in the state (followed by Republicans, who are almost falling behind Unaffiliated), the GOP has managed to draw districts to capture 10 of the 13 House seats from North Carolina. Presumably, under the current gerrymandered map, they will be able to hope for similar outcome, and will then have another two years to drag things out further.<\/p>\n


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\nNorth Carolina’s unconstitutional gerrymandered map will be used in midterms – CNNPolitics<\/a><\/span>
\nA federal court concluded Tuesday there is ‘insufficient time’ before the November midterm elections to redraw North Carolina’s unconstitutional gerrymandered map.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Though a federal court found that the state legislature’s districting plan is rigged to favor the GOP and “constitutes an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment, and Article I of the Constitution,” the same court has now ruled that there’s not enough time for … Continue reading “North Carolina’s GOP manage to successfully run out the clock on gerrymandering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1140,347],"tags":[1705,125,1706],"class_list":["post-137039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2018","category-voting-rights","tag-gerrymandering","tag-gop","tag-nc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/north-carolina-gerrymander.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135784,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/first-time-federal-ruling-partisan-gerrymandering.html","url_meta":{"origin":137039,"position":0},"title":"A first-time federal ruling against partisan gerrymandering","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Jan-18 10:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And I say huzzah. 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