Opinion
If the court’s conservatives adopt the independent state legislature theory, they would be making up law to create an outcome of one-party rule.
July 5, 2022
If the Supreme Court were to accept the independent state legislature theory, then no court could invalidate partisan gerrymandering.
Dec. 7, 2022
In the ruling in Moore vs. Harper, the court did not endorse extreme conservative views on gerrymandering. That’s good for democracy.
June 28, 2023
Nation Now
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Feb. 3, 2012
The ‘independent state legislature’ theory is dead. Still, federal lawmakers should take action to ward off other dangers to democracy.
June 27, 2023
Politics
Thirty-two states already have some kind of voter ID law in force, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
May 15, 2017
The 2020 election cycle is the last chance Democrats will have to make up past losses before redistricting next year.
Oct. 31, 2020
World & Nation
An abortion bill that would require women in North Carolina to wait 72 hours before having the procedure cleared the state Legislature on Wednesday and is now heading to the desk of Gov.
June 3, 2015
Three years after the Supreme Court deemed a key anti-discrimination provision of the Voting Rights Act unnecessary, a federal court on Friday ruled that a subsequently imposed North Carolina law requiring photo IDs at polling places was aimed at discouraging minority turnout.
July 29, 2016
North Carolina’s new Democratic governor and the entrenched Republican-led Legislature battled in court on two fronts Friday over efforts to restrict the chief executive’s ability to alter the state’s recent conservative direction.
Feb. 10, 2017