Ph.D./J.D, Jewish & S. Asian WOC from small-town NC - often found being angry in the vicinity of the #NCGA - she/her/hers 💖💛💙 Views are my own.
Defendants are asking if one of Pegden's (millions) of maps could be less compact than the enacted map.
Sounds like Dr. Jowei Chen will be first up this morning.
Rep. Hall says they are waiting on a number of amendments - another 10 minutes. Seems like there must have been a lot of intra-party negotiation in the past 3.5 hours.
Nickel says that we're a 50/50 state but the map gives 10-11 safe Republican seats out of 14.
Here's another print they got 
Seems like he's dealing with the fact that it can be pretty hard to always keep cities whole in NC because of their discontiguous pieces.
Rewound a bit and I think I heard Sen. Clark? However it's clear that more than one member is going to be at this station.
The staff member said there were some non-contiguous areas that needed to be fixed first. 
Here's the three way split in Mecklenburg, creating a district for Tim Moore to the West and preserving Dan Bishop's district to the East. 
Durham is being worked on - Durham people, how does this House map look to you so far? @bribrough ? 
Moore and Hoke are paired with the Charlotte suburbs yet again, something people in both places specifically said they did not want. 
Here's a closer view of the Triangle area - that dark pink district goes all the way from southern Wake to Randolph and Davidson counties. Light pink packs Orange and Durham with a chunk of Wake. 
Newton closes up on Mecklenburg first 
First district in the Southeast of the county. Came together very quickly (within 2 minutes) as Hall just rattles off a list of precincts - so quickly that the staff member helping him initially has trouble following. 
