About two weeks ago, a federal appeals court struck down many key provisions of a comprehensive voter suppression law enacted by North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature. The court’s opinion was brutal, calling these lawmakers out for using data on racial voting patterns in an intentional effort to construct a law that would prevent many African-Americans from voting.
On Wednesday, North Carolina Republicans received another raft of bad news from a federal court — a three-judge panel struck down the state legislative maps as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Although the court’s opinion in Covington v. North Carolina is considerably less harsh in tone than the Fourth Circuit’s opinion halting much of the state’s voter suppression law, the loss of these maps is still a blow to Republicans....
https://thinkprogress.org/breaking-north-carolinas-state-legislative-districts-struck-down-as-a-racial-gerrymander-1de42efeb2db#.j8uyrhwh7
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