In this new federal ruling striking down North Carolina's congressional map, an explosive possibility: The court **may** order North Carolina to run the 2018 congressional elections under NEW maps. redistricting.lls.edu/files/NC%20cc%… 
And there's a really explosively ironic twist—so ironic I'll need to take this thread into a third tweet to unpack it.
NCGOP cancelled primaries for some elections just this year bc it thought this wld best fit its 2018 needs.
Federal court cites that cancelation as possible justification to hold 2018 elections with new map. It's saying: It may be quick—but we thought primaries weren't needed?
Federal court cites that cancelation as possible justification to hold 2018 elections with new map. It's saying: It may be quick—but we thought primaries weren't needed?
And there's a second ironic twist: NC legislature called itself into a special session this summer to rewrite ballot language of referenda. That's occasioned litigation that has slowed printing of ballots.
Federal court cites that delay as possible justification for new map.
Federal court cites that delay as possible justification for new map.
And if you feel like NC is embroiled in a never-ending deluge of litigation over the GOP's ever-new electoral law concoctions... that's because it is. My attempt at recapping the mess last month:
