Republicans are seeking to prevent a duly elected state Supreme Court justice from taking her seat. If they succeed, election ...

Around the time this happened, political science professor Andrew Reynolds argued in the News & Observer that gerrymandering ...

In this moment of crisis, the courts have become the final guardrail against the forces of authoritarianism that seek to ...

In practice, the most important part of the test—its evaluation of a gerrymander’s severity—often boils down to a cold, hard look at the data. Take, for instance, North Carolina’s ...

1. In April 2023, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s new 5-2 Republican majority overturned a prior decision and held that extreme partisan gerrymandering, no matter how destructive of rights of ...

That’s why the group aims to provide “loser training” to those who sign up to be a cant-idate. Barr says the training ...

The three seats nabbed by the GOP in a mid-decade gerrymander of North Carolina look like they will be the difference-maker. First the math: As of Thanksgiving weekend, the Associated Press has ...

I’ve covered North Carolina politics for 20 years ... Republicans on the state court have shown no appetite for curbing gerrymandering, at least as long as it benefits their party.

according to an Associated Press analysis using a mathematical formula designed to detect gerrymandering. “North Carolina is very much a purple state,” said Melissa Price Kromm, executive ...