The awful NC legislature, largely the product of breathtakingly effective partisan gerrymandering, may finally be about to get more competitive. A lower Court in NC just unanimously ruled that the GOP maps violated the state constitution (which keeps it out of federal courts), and the state GOP apparently does not plan to appeal (virtually all observers think that they would have lost in the NC Supreme Court, after the GOP outsmarted itself and lost a Supreme Court seat to an anti-gerrymandering progressive). The Court gave the legislature two weeks to produce new maps, and set some very stringent conditions on how they could do it.
Vox has the story here.
This is very, very good news!
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