Democrats attack maps of North Carolina Congress

Democrats head to the courts to challenge the validity of North Carolina's 13 congressional districts, just weeks after the country's highest court ruled that the Republican-controlled legislature unconstitutionally manipulated state-level maps. States.

A new lawsuit filed on Friday on behalf of 14 voters in North Carolina challenges the Republican-designed cards that came into effect before the 2016 elections, after a court had thrown a series of drawn cards after the election. 2010 census.

The Court found that the 2010 maps did not adequately divide minority communities or concentrate them in certain districts in order to dilute their political power, a practice known as cracking and packaging. When the legislature redrawed the boundaries of congressional ridings in 2016, the prosecution alleges that it substituted past partisan behavior for racial data that they were no longer allowed to use.

Stanton Jones, one of the leading lawyers who has filed suit against the district's boundaries, has termed the new cards as "the most extreme and brazen partisan gerrymander in American history."

These cards, both the 2010 version and the 2016 version, helped Republicans win 10 of 13 congressional districts.

The Republicans who drew the district lines made fun of the latest Democratic trial. President of the Senate Senate, Phil Berger (right), said the complaint showed that Democrats were interested in fair cards only when they could benefit them politically.

"Eric Holder will continue until the blue end" is a Democratic Legislative majority created by Democratic judges, "Berger said." Anyone who doubts that Holder's support for "fair cards" is a false pretense to help Democrats answer a question: How many blue states have they sued? "

In June, the US Supreme Court refused to declare the North Carolina maps unconstitutional. In this case, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, by a majority of five votes, that the high court could not get involved in an inherently partisan struggle.

But this time, the Democrats are suing district courts in district courts – an avenue that has helped them to overturn district boundaries in another very gerrymandered state, Pennsylvania, before the mid-term elections of the United States. 'last year.

This group of judges is currently examining whether new cards that the legislator has rebroadcast accept.

If the new challenge to congressional districts goes through the courts, Democrats have much more confidence in their chances at the Supreme Court of North Carolina than they would be in the US Supreme Court. The North Carolina court is composed of seven judges, one of them a Republican.

But time is running out. Candidates who come to the United States for House North Carolina seats must apply by December 2, only two months away. The primary of the congress is scheduled for March 3rd.

It is unclear whether the courts could work fast enough to implement new cards in time, or whether they could or could order a delay in elections if the current lines are found to be unconstitutional.