As filing period begins, CCNC urges voters to ask NCGA candidates where they stand on nonpartisan redistricting
As the 2018 legislative election season begins in earnest, Common Cause NC urges North Carolina voters to ask candidates where they stand on ending gerrymandering and enacting nonpartisan redistricting reform.
CCNC statement on stay by Supreme Court in NC partisan gerrymandering case
"We will ask the Supreme Court to affirm the lower court ruling or hear this landmark case," Phillips said. "And we are confident that the court will ultimately agree that the legislature’s extreme partisan gerrymander violates the constitutional rights of North Carolina citizens."
CCNC statement on US Supreme Court ruling against gerrymandered NC legislative districts
The US Supreme Court rejected a request to review a lower court ruling that found NC lawmakers unconstitutionally gerrymandered the state's legislative districts along racial lines.