Why the NC state court decision cannot be appealed but Gore v Bush, which started in the FL state system (right?) DID go to the USSC? Don’t they both involve equal representation claims and federal voting?

and it's a matter for the States. Since the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled North Carolina has to change its districts, the Supreme Court will not take the case, thus Republicans have no reason to appeal it.

Which means justice wins in NC!

Now if we can get rid of gerrymandering here in Ohio too....

Which is what has happened now.

What the Court in North Carolina may have done, like the one in Pennsylvania a few years ago, is specify HOW maps must be redrawn. I think Pennsylvania had a non-partisan panel draw the maps after rejecting republicans' effort to maintain their crooked advantage. If I remember correctly, North Carolina will go directly to a Court supervised non-partisan panel. If maps are drawn fairly, republicans lose big.

Here in Florida growth is causing problems for republicans. As parts of the state adds people, diversity and growth, republicans are jiggling districts all over the state and are still slowly losing state Legistlature and congressional seats. They can slow the process of losing seats, but if growth and diversity continues, they can't stop it from accelerating.

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This suit is about the US House districts. The courts previously rejected the N.C. House and Senate maps. Those were redrawn under a two week deadline and detailed instructions from the courts. They were much better than anything done recently. In a separate ruling, the Court accepted this most recent set of maps.

That seems like it would be circular logic.

If the General Assembly doesn't produce an acceptable map, the Court can the order the Redistricting be done by experts assigned by the Court.

Because the Republicans in the General Assembly aren't going to just hand us an acceptable map.

No idea what our GA will do regarding the US House districts.

I expect them to re-draw the map with much more thought than the maps they drew that targeted minority voters with precision, but it will still leave enough gerrymandering for them to preserve their majorities.

And I will add that I hope that they break up NC congressional 3 so I no longer have this new Trump lackey Murphy as my Congressman.

I am sure that is written somewhere. Good to know they have heard of it.

Needs to be done all across America!