ICYMI: The North Carolina Supreme Court released its full opinion in lawsuits that struck down the state's congressional and legislative maps for partisan gerrymandering.
Find all the case documents here and read highlights from the opinion below 👇 democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
Find all the case documents here and read highlights from the opinion below 👇 democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
"Partisan gerrymandering creates the same harm as malapportionment, which has previously been held to violate the state constitution: some peoples’ votes have more power than others."
"But a legislative body can only reflect the will of the people if it is elected from districts that provide one person’s vote with substantially the same power as every other person’s vote."
"In North Carolina, a state without a citizen referendum process and where only a supermajority of the legislature can propose constitutional amendments, it is no answer to say that responsibility for addressing partisan gerrymandering is in the hands of the people..."
"...when they are represented by legislators who are able to entrench themselves by manipulating the very democratic process from which they derive their constitutional authority."
"Rather than stepping outside of our role as judicial officers and into the policymaking realm, here we are carrying out the most fundamental of our sacred duties: protecting the constitutional rights of the people of North Carolina from overreach by the General Assembly."
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