Source: Taft Wireback, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/16/18




A panel of federal judges denied a plea Tuesday from leading Republican legislators seeking to delay a recent order requiring the General Assembly to redraw North Carolina’s congressional districts by Jan. 24. The requirement stems from the panel’s finding last week that congressional districts the GOP-led legislature drew in 2016 stemmed from unconstitutional, partisan gerrymandering that went too far in tipping the scales…

For more of this story, click here.