The North Carolina court found that the state legislature's new map violates both equal protection and freedom of speech and assembly
in June that it was ill-suited to policing partisan gerrymandering, Chief Justice John Roberts wove in a faint silver lining for fans of democracy. Federal courts may not be cut out to decide when state legislatures go too far in drawing electoral lines to entrench one party in power, butcourts are another matter.
This blatant and “extreme” partisan gerrymander, the North Carolina court found, violates two rights protected by the state constitution with analogues to the federal constitution: equal protection and freedom of speech and assembly.
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