North Carolina GOP advanced a new congressional gerrymander with 10 safe GOP seats, 3 safe Dem seats, & 1 GOP-trending swing district in a key swing state
It would be among America's most extreme gerrymanders & replace a court-drawn map that went 7D-7R in 2022 davesredistricting.org/join/e595a26...
NC Republicans passed the above congressional map out of state Senate committee earlier today & are expected to pass the final version into law later this week. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper lacks the power to veto it (& the GOP could override him anyway).
Background: www.dailykos.com/stories/2023...
No, it's not done. Marc's team has been winning case after case already. SCOTUS has not protected the clearly unconstitutional gerrymandering cases brought before it that Marc's team has fought.
As an Alabama resident I can tell you from recent experience: it is not a “done deal.” I’d wager this map is far too extreme for Kavanaugh and Roberts to stake their reputations on, just as Alabama’s was.
They have to find a racial argument as they did in AL to tie to to VRA. They won't act on political gerrymandering alone, no matter how obvious. At least not yet. Though I do see some cracks in this court. They don't like how Alito thinks he's king - my guess anyway.
Probably done. The 2022 map was the legal recourse and then NC voters gave them the power in 2022 to overturn it. It should be illegal, by NC and federal law, but neither Supreme Court is going to overturn it. Hell, the federal Supreme Court basically told them how to do it.
New York tried but the GOP-dominated courts threw out the maps and imposed GOP-slanted ones.
(How is it that the GOP still has so much power in NY? I suspect Satan.)
based on geography alone, i count at least eight districts that make no sense, including, for example, the three whose borders are a bunch of squiggly lines designed to make sure greensboro doesn't elect a democrat
Yup. 5 doesn’t look /that/ bad geographically, but it manages to include Boone, Winston-Salem, part of Greensboro, AND enough rural counties to still be red. Wild.
As I said, this county are pretty compact. This could be much worst and indicate how relatively easy is to manipulate the electoral map with today software.
