{"id":156409,"date":"2025-12-03T01:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=156409"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:40:38","slug":"north-carolina-can-use-republican-friendly-congressional-map-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=156409","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/26\/us\/north-carolina-congressional-map-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina on Wednesday allowed the state\u2019s newly redrawn congressional map to go into effect for the 2026 midterm elections, a victory for the Trump administration and Republican efforts to retain control of the U.S. House next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judges, at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, unanimously sided with the state\u2019s Republican leaders, whose lawyers had argued that their motivations to draw a new map were partisan \u2014 not because of race or political retaliation, as the plaintiffs had claimed. That distinction was important because the U.S. Supreme Court effectively\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/10\/us\/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blessed partisan gerrymandering<\/a>\u00a0in a 2019 ruling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina on Wednesday allowed the state\u2019s newly redrawn congressional map to go into effect for the 2026 midterm elections, a victory for the Trump administration and Republican efforts to retain control of the U.S. House next year. The judges, at the U.S. District Court for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156410,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156409\/revisions\/156410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}