Two lawsuits challenging North Carolina’s new statewide election maps are likely to head to trial in June 2025. The three-judge panel overseeing the cases released that information Wednesday.
The three-judge panel overseeing two federal redistricting lawsuits in North Carolina will hold its first hearing in the cases on May 28. The suits challenge the state’s congressional and legislative election maps.
Candidate filing for non-judicial offices on the 2014 ballot will take place between 8 a.m. on Monday, March 3 through 5 p.m. on Friday, March 14. Secretary of State Ross Miller encourages candidates filing at the Secretary of State s office to schedule appointments in advance with Elections Division filing officers in Carson City or Las Vegas.
Quality Journalism for Critical Times As lawmakers redistricted in 2022, the Florida Legislature packed Black voters into a Senate district spanning Tampa Bay to favor white control of a neighboring Senate district, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tampa. The ACLU of Florida, Civil Rights & Racial Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law, and […] The post Federal lawsuit: Two state Senate districts in Tampa Bay are ‘racially gerrymandered’ appeared first on Florida Pho