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1 Marcus Gadson, Judicial Whiplash in North Carolina Redistricting Case: The New Court Majority Reversed Itself and Found the State Constitution Powerless to Confront Partisan Gerrymandering [1] (2023)

handle is hein.statecon/judwhiplash0001 and id is 1 raw text is: rSATCORTEPR - I SA~U~ ~L~fW~5 JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION Judicial Whiplash in North Carolina Redistricting Case The new court majority reversed itself and found the state constitution powerless to confront partisan gerrymandering. By Marcus Gadson Published: May 18, 2023 North Carolina The North Carolina Supreme Court recently added another page to the long-running saga of Harper v. Hall. In that case, the court initially found that congressional and state senate maps drawn by the legislature violated the North Carolina Constitution because they were partisan gerrymanders. Now the court, which flipped to a conservative majority this year, has reversed itself and held that the state constitution doesn't prohibit partisan gerrymandering. Political questions and originalism in the state context hii ºººI i 111º I ,