Post by addisona on Feb 16, 2022 11:33:52 GMT
NC Supreme Court had constitutional duty to strike down GOP maps, Democratic majority says in full opinion
North Carolina’s Democratic Supreme Court justices said they had a duty under the state constitution to prevent state lawmakers from implementing legislative and congressional boundaries drawn for pure partisan gain.
In a full opinion released Monday in a high-profile redistricting lawsuit, the high court's four liberal justices made the case against partisan gerrymandering and why they felt compelled to intervene in what their conservative colleagues viewed as judicial overreach.
Robin Hudson, a justice on the high court who will not seek reelection this year, wrote on behalf of her Democratic colleagues that the U.S. House, state House and state Senate maps Republicans approved in November 2021 violate the state constitution's free elections, equal protection, free speech clause and freedom of assembly clauses.
Hudson rejected the views of Republican attorneys and three conservative state Supreme Court justices who argued the high court was overstepping its authority.
www.wral.com/nc-supreme-court-had-constitutional-duty-to-strike-down-gop-maps-democratic-majority-says-in-full-opinion/20138734/
North Carolina’s Democratic Supreme Court justices said they had a duty under the state constitution to prevent state lawmakers from implementing legislative and congressional boundaries drawn for pure partisan gain.
In a full opinion released Monday in a high-profile redistricting lawsuit, the high court's four liberal justices made the case against partisan gerrymandering and why they felt compelled to intervene in what their conservative colleagues viewed as judicial overreach.
Robin Hudson, a justice on the high court who will not seek reelection this year, wrote on behalf of her Democratic colleagues that the U.S. House, state House and state Senate maps Republicans approved in November 2021 violate the state constitution's free elections, equal protection, free speech clause and freedom of assembly clauses.
Hudson rejected the views of Republican attorneys and three conservative state Supreme Court justices who argued the high court was overstepping its authority.
www.wral.com/nc-supreme-court-had-constitutional-duty-to-strike-down-gop-maps-democratic-majority-says-in-full-opinion/20138734/