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September 30, 2019

SCSJ Represents Democracy North Carolina in Amicus Brief Urging State Court to Reject State’s Proposed Remedy Maps

Late Friday, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice submitted an amicus brief on behalf of Democracy North Carolina urging a three-judge state court panel in Common Cause v. Lewis to reject the “remedial” State Senate and House redistricting plans enacted by the General Assembly a little over a week ago. SCSJ and Democracy NC argued that those plans fail to eliminate the partisan bias that led the court to invalidate the prior plans as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.

Category iconPress Release,  Recent News,  Uncategorized,  Voting Rights Tag iconDemocracy NC,  gerrymandering,  remedial maps,  voting rights

December 15, 2015

Coalition of Civic Organizations Sues North Carolina for Failing to Comply with Federal Voting Rights Obligations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2015   Contacts Michael McDunnah, Project Vote 202-905-1397 / mmcdunnah@projectvote.org   Hayley Home, Morrison Foerster 415-268-6021 / hhome@mofo.com   Donté Donald, Demos 212-485-6062 / ddonald@demos.org   Allison Riggs, Southern Coalition for Social Justice 919-323-3380 ext. 117 / allison@southerncoalition.org   Stacie Burgess, Lawyers’ Committee 202-445-6101 / sburgess@lawyerscommittee.org   Coalition of Civic […]

Category iconPress Release,  Recent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconAction NC,  APRI,  Democracy NC,  Demos,  Lawyer's Committee,  Motor Voter Law,  North Carolina,  North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute,  NVRA,  Project Vote,  Southern Coalition for Social Justice,  voting rights

December 19, 2014

North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Racially Gerrymandered Districts

Today the North Carolina Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling upholding North Carolina’s state legislative and Congressional redistricting plans.  The North Carolina NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute, Democracy NC and dozens of individual voters sued the state over the redistricting plans in November 2011.  The case has […]

Category iconPress Release,  Recent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconDemocracy NC,  League of Women Voters of North Carolina,  North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute,  North Carolina NAACP,  racial gerrymandering,  redistricting

September 11, 2014

How The Fight Against Voting Rights Restrictions Could Decide This Year's Marquee Senate Race

DURHAM, N.C. — President Barack Obama won North Carolina by just 14,000 votes in 2008. Now, as Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) and state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) go head to head in a race that will determine which party controls the Senate, the state’s voter turnout is in question: Will voting rights restrictions passed […]

Category iconRecent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconBob Hall,  Democracy NC,  Faulkner Fox,  George Eppsteiner,  Gunther Peck,  League of Women Voters of North Carolina,  Moral Monday,  NAACP

July 8, 2014

Mistrust in North Carolina Over Plan to Reduce Precincts

By RICHARD FAUSSET for  the New York Times, JULY 7, 2014 SHELBY, N.C. — When Alan Langley, a Republican member of the local elections board here, explains a new proposal to consolidate five voting precincts into two, it sounds procedural and well-meaning: He speaks of convenient parking and wheelchair access at the proposed polling places, […]

Category iconRecent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconAnita Earls,  Bob Hall,  Democracy NC,  New York Times,  voting rights

June 19, 2014

Engaging young voters

Young Voters Young people can be a difficult audience to reach and enthuse about political issues. NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation tackled this challenge by partnering with other nonprofits to sponsor a day-long Reproductive Justice Summit targeting youth ages 16-24 for a series of advocacy skill and education sessions. SCSJ voting rights organizing intern, Xan […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Recent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconDemocracy NC,  NARAL NC,  Reproductive Justice Summit,  voting rights,  young voters

January 9, 2014

SCSJ's Statement on NC Supreme Court Redistricting Hearing

On Monday, January 6, 2014 the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) presented oral arguments before the North Carolina Supreme Court, urging the court to find that the 2011 redistricting maps are unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. During the summer 2013 trial, SCSJ represented several statewide nonpartisan groups, including the League of Women Voters of North […]

Category iconPress Release,  Recent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconA. Philip Randolph,  Democracy NC,  League of Women Voters,  redistricting

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