McCrory asks US Supreme Court to pause court-ordered 2017 elections

[TexasTowelie]

RALEIGH — With just one day to go before he leaves office, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory threw a legal hail mary to the U.S. Supreme Court in another apparent effort to undermine his Democratic successor’s ability to govern.

McCrory filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking the justices to pause court-ordered special elections for more than two dozen state legislative districts in 2017 — special elections in which Democrats could have an opportunity to pick up seats in North Carolina’s GOP-dominated legislature.

A federal court found this summer that 28 state House and Senate districts were racially gerrymandered, but the three-judge panel made the unusual decision to let the election go forward in those districts because they decided it was too late to redraw the maps. After the election, the court ordered the legislature to redraw the lines by March and hold special elections later in 2017.

Republicans have a veto-proof supermajority in both North Carolina chambers. Democrats, who seized the governor’s mansion this fall, were excited at the prospect of having a rare second chance to pick up state House and Senate seats in 2017. If the Supreme Court grants McCrory’s request for a stay, though, Democrats could have to wait until the 2018 midterm elections to try to win more seats under a new electoral map.

Read more: http://www.greensboro.com/washingtonpost/news/mccrory-asks-us-supreme-court-to-pause-court-ordered-elections/article_98dfcb6b-f46e-50c9-bff7-d7fb633528d3.html

[SpankMe]

1. The pure evil and "assholicness" of the modern Republican cannot be understated. n/t

[C Moon]

2. So what happened to North Carolina in the last election? The GOP did fine in their other strongholds

This should be looked at closely. Maybe it will us give clues into what the GOP is doing illegally.

[appal_jack]

5. Grass roots organizing.

Much credit belongs to Rev. William Barber and the NAACP, but countless other activists have also pitched-in to make this a statewide effort of resistance to proto-fascism and building a better democratic alternative. Hopefully, this is just the start of better things to come.

-app

[C Moon]

6. Amazing! Thanks! That's a lot of work.

[FBaggins]

7. Actually... McCrory is what happened

So what happened to North Carolina in the last election? The GOP did fine in their other strongholds

They did fine in NC as well - except for McCrory. Trump won by almost four points when polling showed the race very close (including a Quinnipiac poll just before the election showing Clinton up by two. Burr kept his Senate seat (I think by six points) when the race was supposed to be competitive (I expected to win), and they won the LG spot as well.

But McCrory's name was mud... and enormous donations flooded in to beat him.

Now, you might say that that's a tough model to duplicate nationally... but do we really have to wonder about whether or not Republicans will do something that others find offensive?

[C Moon]

8. Thank you!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. I thought this was the onion for real

[Initech]

4. Hey Pat, you lost. Now go away.