Gov. Roy Cooper and state Attorney General Josh Stein support the plaintiffs seeking a preliminary injunction in federal court against North Carolina’s new state Senate map. Cooper and Stein filed paperwork Tuesday to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
A federal judge has rejected a proposal to rule by the end of this week on an injunction in a North Carolina redistricting lawsuit. US District Judge James Dever labeled the proposed timeline “meritless” in an order issued Monday.
A lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina alleges newly adopted district boundaries for the state Senate divide a cluster of predominantly Black counties in the
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Jonathan Miller of the Public Rights Project says the order is part of a “concerted effort by extreme conservative judges […] The post Court ruling on Black voters’ right to sue under Voting Rights Act is ‘unconscionable’ appeared first on TheGrio.