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BREAKING: In a 5-2 ruling, the North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down its prior ruling that gerrymandering violates the state constitution.
#ncleg will be permitted to redraw both legislative and congressional maps.
#ncleg will be permitted to redraw both legislative and congressional maps.
Additionally, the court has reinstated a 2018 voter ID law and reinstated a law banning felons from voting.
Full article: elections-daily.com/2023/04/28/nor…
A draft map of NC House districts has been uploaded.
My understanding is that today is the only day that the #NCGA will be accepting public comments on this map.
ncleg.gov/Committees/Com…\Member%20Submitted%20Maps\HBK-11%20House%20Plan #NCLeg #NCPol
My understanding is that today is the only day that the #NCGA will be accepting public comments on this map.
ncleg.gov/Committees/Com…\Member%20Submitted%20Maps\HBK-11%20House%20Plan #NCLeg #NCPol
I don't know when that map was uploaded - wasn't there a few days ago. How are regular people supposed to able to stay up with all this in time to meaningfully participate in the process?
Reporter warns far-right Republicans may be close to achieving a 'radical rewrite' of the Constitution rawstory.com/reporter-warns… Since 2014 the Convention of States Project and other groups including #ALEC have helped lawmakers in 15 states call for a new constitutional convention
The Convention of States Project is led by a prominent right-wing activist ― former Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler, who is also the current acting CEO of Parler, and a member of the #CNP Council of National Policy's Gold Circle #ShadowNetwork
According to The Center for Media and Democracy, lawmakers proposed 42 Convention of States resolutions in at least 24 new states this year. Article V of the US Constitution states that a constitutional convention could be convened if 2/3 of the states - 34 states call for it.
The NC Senate plans to question state Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell about "her conduct" and extending the number of days absentee ballots were accepted following the 2020 election. #ncpol #ncga. Want to watch at home? ncleg.gov/LegislativeCal…
The committee is giving the background to the "secret settlement" that extended the number of days the #ncga set to accept absentee ballots. Here's a recap: newsobserver.com/news/politics-… #ncpol
Oh...they have a cool split screen thing going on. I approve.
Listening in on the NC House UNC Board of Governors nominations meeting this morning. Get excited! #ncpol #ncga
Rep. William Richardson is not happy with the process for finding the UNC BOG members saying they're not following the process, they're leaving people out of finding board members and that they shouldn't just nominate six and accept those six. #ncleg #ncga
Rep. Richardson asked if there was a memo put out that they could nominate someone because he hadn't heard about it. Rep. Kelly Hastings said its known that this was coming up and anyone could have called him, texted, emailed, etc.
Thread on A Tale of Two Cases…
You don’t change the rules after the game has started. As we’re seeing, changing the rules after kickoff is one problem with @NCSBE’s secret adventure last week—I’m going to tell you about another. (1/9) #ncpol
You don’t change the rules after the game has started. As we’re seeing, changing the rules after kickoff is one problem with @NCSBE’s secret adventure last week—I’m going to tell you about another. (1/9) #ncpol
At the same closed session where the @NCSBE bent over backwards to “settle” with Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias, the same @NCSBE decided they had “no interest in compromis[ing]” to help a group of blind voters. (2/9) #ncpol
Both the @NCSBE lawyers and the @JoshStein_ lawyers admitted that the blind voters were right, but claimed it was “too late” to doing anything about it. They even told a judge the blind voters were right on the law. (3/9) #ncpol
The #KochNetwork, avatar of the tea party, rejects #shutdown protests politi.co/2XX4n4z via @politico AFP board member states “I think there's been a lesson...We saw what we wanted in the #teaparty. It didn’t work out like we’d like. And now we’re much more practical.”
Multiple conservative groups that have been longtime allies of the #KochNetwork network, such as FreedomWorks and #TeaParty Patriots, have led the #shutdown protests. Even the CEO of #ALEC has signed on.
Art Pope, owner of #NorthCarolina politicians, is a co-founder of AFP-NC with David Koch, and often called "Koch Jr". When asked about the #KochNetwork’s position on the current wave of #protests, Pope said “I’ll let them speak for themselves". #NCleg
THREAD: Republicans in multiple states are using their #lameduck legislative sessions to cheat the system in a blatant attempt to entrench their own power and undermine the will of the voters. Craziness has been going down in WI, MI, NC, and OH. Let’s dig in: 1/
Last week, Wisconsin passed measures to cut early voting and strip powers from the incoming Dem Governor @Tony4WI & Attorney General @JoshKaulWI. This was after Republicans lost all statewide offices in November. #WIPowerGrab. #WisconsinisWatching 2/
If that sounds desperate and shady to you, oh, it was. The GOP was literally handing out copies of their hastily written bills and Dems had to beg for time to read them before voting literally in the middle of the night. (I know because I was up waiting all night!) 3/
