Source: Anne Blythe, NEWS & OBSERVER, 6/29/18


In North Carolina, where there have been seven redistricting lawsuits in the past decade, the news of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court added a new cliffhanger in the long-running mystery of partisan and racial gerrymandering claims not yet resolved. During his three decades on the bench, Kennedy has voted with the more liberal justices on everything from same-sex marriage to abortion rights to affirmative action to the...

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