LWV of Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Today a three-judge panel ruled that four Wake County House Districts violated the North Carolina Constitution and ordered the district maps redrawn in the next legislative session.

The League filed a brief in the case of Common Cause v. Rucho with the Supreme Court on October 31.

A three-judge panel struck down the state’s congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. 

The League of Women Voters of North Carolina is a plaintiff in a case challenging the state's 13 congressional districts as extreme unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.

The Supreme Court sent the North Carolina redistricting case of Rucho v. League of Women Voters of NC back to the U.S District court for further consideration.

The case of League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho challenges North Carolina’s 2016 congressional redistricting plan, arguing the plan violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.