State Redistricting Battle Moves To Washington, D.C.

WRAL-TV ^ | June 26,2002 | Kamal Wallace,

[Overtaxed]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The fight over voting districts in North Carolina made its way to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The state wants the federal courts to end the dispute.

On Wednesday, members of the State Board of Elections and Democratic leaders from the state House and Senate went to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. They asked a three-judge panel to look at redistricting maps created last month by Superior Court judge Knox Jenkins. They claim those maps are unconstitutional and do not adequately protect the rights of minority voters.

[Phantom Lord]

Didnt the Supreme Court already refuse to hear arguments on NC redisctricting?

[Overtaxed]

That's what I thought. Maybe the Dems should try the 9th Circuit Court!

[Phantom Lord]

Speaking of the 9th circut. Little to no attention is being paid to the actual 'Pledge' ruling. Talking heads, headline writers, and talk show hosts are running around with 'headline and soundbite' mentality. They need to read the damn ruling.

In their footnotes they acknowledge that the Supreme Court has ruled the Pledge Constitutional and that they fully expect their ruling to be thrown out when the full 9th circut court hears it.

Even the looney lefties on NPR are saying that the 2 judges who voted against the pledge were idiots and readily admitted in their writing that they were gonna be overturned.

[Free the USA]

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