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University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court effectively overruled Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) [ 6 ] and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which validated some affirmative action in college admissions provided that race had a limited role in decisions.
Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, 588 U.S. 684 (2019) is a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. [1] The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.
Shaw v. Reno was a United States Supreme Court case involving a claim that North Carolina's 12th congressional district (pictured) was affirmatively racially gerrymandered. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in Davis v. Bandemer (1986) that partisan gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause and is a justiciable matter. However, the ...
The post The U.S. Supreme Court made some shocking decisions that impacted Black Americans in 2023 appeared first on TheGrio. ... University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University ...
After the GOP swept statewide judicial races in 2022, the state Supreme Court’s new Republican majority reversed the court’s previous gerrymandering decision, ruling that the court has no ...
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It was the first partisan gerrymandering case taken by the Supreme Court after its landmark decision in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) which stated that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts, and the first racial gerrymandering case after the court's decision in Allen v. Milligan (2023).
A Western North Carolina resident and former Republican N.C. Supreme Court justice may soon try to bring a case about political gerrymandering to his old workplace.