[EL] 3-Judge Federal Court Strikes Down 2 North Carolina Congressional Districts as Racial Gerrymanders

[Rick Hasen]

Update: The court has given two weeks to parties to redraw these 
districts, but early votinghas already begun 
<https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/695774366311845888>. Republican 
lawmakers have alreadycriticized this change 
<https://twitter.com/RaleighReporter/status/695769244072542208>as 
“eleventh hour.”

The state might file an emergency motion with the Supreme Court, and the 
Court could delay this ruling. The Supreme Court has been very wary of 
allowing court changes to election rules just before the election. 
(Seethis 
paper<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545676>on the 
Purcell Principle).




On 2/5/16 3:35 PM, Rick Hasen wrote:
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>
>     3-Judge Federal Court Strikes Down 2 North Carolina Congressional
>     Districts as Racial Gerrymanders <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79650>
>
> Posted onFebruary 5, 2016 3:33 pm 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79650>byRick Hasen 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> The 100 pages of opinions arehere 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/North-Carolina-Decision.pdf>. 
> One of the three judges dissented as to one of the two districts.
>
> If North Carolina wishes, it could seek direct Supreme Court review. 
> There isalready a Virginia case 
> <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/wittman-v-personhuballah/?wpmp_switcher=desktop> 
> raising similar issues before the Court. And we are waiting for other 
> rulings in similar cases, including the remand of the Alabama racial 
> gerrymandering case from last year which got this ball rolling.
>
> On these cases, see my piece, Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable 
> Revival,/Alabama Law Review/(forthcoming 2015) (draft available 
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2601459>).
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