Post by Logan on Mar 2, 2016 5:44:15 GMT -6
The voters who persuaded a three-judge panel that two of North Carolina’s congressional districts were racial gerrymanders contend in a court document filed late Monday that the new maps drawn in February are no better.
Attorneys for David Harris, a Durham voter, and Christine Bowser, a Mecklenburg County voter, asked the three-judge panel to reject the new maps as “a blatant, unapologetic partisan gerrymander” that fails to provide a legal remedy to the 2011 maps that were struck down last month as unconstitutional.
In their 40-page court filing, the map challengers contend that for more than three decades the U.S. Supreme Court “has explicitly recognized that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional” and cited a case in Arizona to bolster their claim.
Rep. David Lewis, a Republican from Harnett County who helped shepherd the 2011 maps and February redesigns through the General Assembly, said race was not considered at all when mapping the 13 congressional districts proposed as a remedy.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article63322822.html
Attorneys for David Harris, a Durham voter, and Christine Bowser, a Mecklenburg County voter, asked the three-judge panel to reject the new maps as “a blatant, unapologetic partisan gerrymander” that fails to provide a legal remedy to the 2011 maps that were struck down last month as unconstitutional.
In their 40-page court filing, the map challengers contend that for more than three decades the U.S. Supreme Court “has explicitly recognized that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional” and cited a case in Arizona to bolster their claim.
Rep. David Lewis, a Republican from Harnett County who helped shepherd the 2011 maps and February redesigns through the General Assembly, said race was not considered at all when mapping the 13 congressional districts proposed as a remedy.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article63322822.html