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In 2020, North Carolina legislators created a congressional map that skewed district lines to systematically benefit one political party and hurt the other. The state supreme court struck down the map as an extreme partisan gerrymander, in violation of the state constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 7, 2022

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Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina gerrymandering case where legislators are asking for the power to ignore their own state constitutions. This case could upend American democracy as we know it — here’s what you need to know. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 7, 2022

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A group of legislators appealed this decision, bringing the case to the US Supreme Court. Invoking the so-called independent state legislature theory, they argue that only legislators have the power to set state rules for federal elections and state courts have no role. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 7, 2022