NC Policy Watch, the online journalism initiative of the North Carolina Justice Center, has launched the “Defending Democracy” project. This project will generate a steady drumbeat of new and original content (news stories, commentary, newsmaker interviews, expert analysis and more) related to the latest state policy developments, court decisions, research, advocacy and organizing efforts in the fight to preserve democracy in the battleground state of North Carolina.
New report: Using citizenship data in redistricting will whitewash representation
Common Cause released a report today that shows drawing electoral boundaries using only data for citizens over the age of 18 relies on fundamentally faulty data and is part of a partisan plot to shift representation away from communities of color to areas where white populations live.
- Brennan Center highlights North Carolina fines, fees practices as part of new reportThe Brennan Center for Justice released a new report yesterday about the steep costs of criminal justice fines and fees… Read more »
- Confused about new legislative districts? This ‘map geek’ can helpThere’s been enough redistricting this year to make anyone’s head spin, but a self-described North Carolina “map geek” is on… Read more »
- BREAKING: Court stops Congressional candidate filing pending gerrymandering litigationA North Carolina court has enjoined Congressional candidate filing — set to begin in just over a week — pending… Read more »
- Republicans ask to recuse Justice Anita Earls from map appealRepublican legislative defendants in a partisan gerrymandering case involving legislative election maps has asked for North Carolina Supreme Court Justice… Read more »
- Most of the Hofeller files are no longer protected by court confidentialityTens of thousands of documents from the late, renowned GOP mapmaker Tom Hofeller are no longer considered confidential by a… Read more »
- Voters, Congressional candidate file federal lawsuit over decision to halt use of 2016 mapA group of North Carolina voters and man campaigning for Congress filed a federal lawsuit this week asking the court… Read more »
- Voting rights advocates to Cooper: Veto bill that would remove non-citizens from voter rollsVoting rights advocates are urging Gov. Roy Cooper to veto a bill that tasks the State Board of Elections to… Read more »
- Appellate judges considering whether unconstitutionally-elected lawmakers could propose constitutional amendmentsOnce a General Assembly is declared by a court to be unconstitutionally constituted and not representative of its voters, does… Read more »
- U.S. House green-lights Trump impeachment inquiryWASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday voted to formalize its impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Lawmakers adopted a… Read more »
- NC lawmakers failed to enact anti-immigration legislation, so now U.S. Congressmen will tryNorth Carolina legislative Republicans couldn’t pass a law forcing sheriffs to honor requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to… Read more »
- Court approves remedial legislative maps, strikes down 2016 congressional mapsA three-judge panel has approved remedial legislative districts that were enacted last month after the last ones were found to… Read more »
- Federal judge denies legislators’ attempts to move partisan gerrymandering case from state courtA federal judge ruled against North Carolina lawmakers for a second time this year on their attempts to remove partisan… Read more »
- New report: Using citizenship data in redistricting will whitewash representationCommon Cause released a report today that shows drawing electoral boundaries using only data for citizens over the age of… Read more »
- Vox explores how Hofeller shifted power in new video about gerrymanderingThe late GOP mapmaker Thomas Hofeller has become synonymous with partisan gerrymandering in the U.S., but it’s his work in… Read more »
- ACLU of NC asks court to declare solitary confinement unconstitutionalNorth Carolina inmates in solitary confinement are kept in cells that are no bigger than a parking space for 22… Read more »
