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In more positive news.


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...-down-00005974

North Carolina's state Supreme Court handed Democrats one of their biggest legal victories yet in the fight over redistricting, striking down a GOP-drawn congressional map that could have given Republicans control of 11 of the state’s 14 districts.

In a ruling released Friday evening, the justices split 4-3 along party lines in deeming the current map an illegal partisan gerrymander that is “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Democrats have notched three major redistricting court rulings this year alone. Ohio's state Supreme Court tossed out a Republican-drawn map that could have relegated Democrats to just two of the 15 seats. Meanwhile, federal judges ordered Alabama's legislature to draw two heavily Black districts instead of packing a large number of the state's Black voters into one seat — though Republicans have appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.

Courts are also expected to determine the maps in Wisconsin, Louisiana and Pennsylvania in the coming weeks. All three states have Democratic governors with veto power but Republican-dominated state houses.