piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
With the next scheduled round of redistricting eight years away, now is the best time to talk about redistricting reform. Following traditional redistricting criteria more strictly and making the “Stephenson…
Legislators disagreed during North Carolina’s recent round of redistricting on whether the General Assembly had to conduct a racially polarized voting analysis. This raises at least two questions. The first…
We noted on October 20 how the proposed North Carolina Senate map tended to favor Republicans. We also noted how closely they adhered to or failed to adhere to traditional…
The North Carolina General Assembly is expected to have its new legislative and congressional maps ready this week. The 2022 interim congressional map was always expected to be redrawn this…
A case out of South Carolina could help set limits on claims of racial gerrymandering, further clarifying how such claims may affect districts the North Carolina General Assembly will draw…
The John Locke Foundation’s Jim Stirling and Andy Jackson both spoke at a public hearing of the joint Senate Redistricting and Elections and House Redistricting committees on September 27 at…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional map was a racial gerrymander. The totality of several racial gerrymandering cases creates a safe harbor between violating the Voting Rights Act…
It has been several decades since North Carolina produced a set of congressional and state legislative redistricting maps that have survived for an entire decade. Courts have struck down many…
I spoke in favor of House Bill 44, removing the literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of March…
Contrary to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's contention, the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act protect the voting rights of people of all races. People of all races can be…
On the first day of its new session, the Supreme Court of the United States heard a voting rights case with racial undertones from Alabama. Depending on the outcome of the decision,…
Stacey Abrams never accepted the results of her 2018 loss for Georgia governor, nor have many Democrats, who claimed that the election was stolen due to “voter suppression.” An organization…