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North Carolina Republicans Won’t Appeal Gerrymandering Ruling, Promise “Nonpartisan” Map. What’s the End Game?<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107179>
Posted on September 3, 2019 3:13 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107179> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107177> about today’s state court ruling<https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2019/09/03/5d6ec7bee4b0cdfe0576ee09.pdf>, North Carolina Republicans have thrown in the towel<https://twitter.com/byamberphillips/status/1169008388077969415>:
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A looong legal battle over these state legislative districts in North Carolina is over. No more appeals. Democrats and opponents of partisan gerrymandering have won.
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Why aren’t the Republicans continuing to fight this, given the unrelenting path they’ve taken before? Here are a few possibilities:
1.    They know they will lose in the Democratic-dominated state supreme court, and there is no viable path to federal court review.
2.    They would rather NOT get a holding from the state Supreme Court (this was a three-judge trial court ruling), which would have greater precedential value.
3.    They hope they would have a better chance to have their “nonpartisan” map accepted by the Supreme Court if they throw in the towel (that is, they are trying to avoid a worse court-drawn map).
4.    They will use this ruling to run against the Supreme Court and try for a state constitutional amendment to give them the right to engage in partisan gerrymandering after the 2020 census.
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