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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 North Carolina Supreme Court reversed itself Friday on whether partisan gerrymandering and a strict voter ID law violate the state constitution. N.C.'s new GOP-controlled high court reverses ...
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North Carolina's Supreme Court has ordered legislators to redraw their congressional map, overturning a lower court's decision and declaring the map "an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander."
Common Cause, a case that challenged the North Carolina congressional map as a partisan gerrymander. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2019, the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present nonjusticiable political questions. [10] Justice Kagan, dissenting, observed that "[f]or the first time ever, th[e] Court refuses to ...
The decisions come just before the court flips to GOP control on Jan. 1, when there will be five Republican justices and two Democrats. ... The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday knocked down ...