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The Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision on Monday struck down two North Carolina congressional districts it said were illegally drawn based on race.
The majority's ruling, which handed a victory to voting rights advocates, included a rare pairing of conservative Justice Clarence Thomas with the court's four liberals.
While the decision won't trigger any immediate changes in North Carolina — the state's legislature redrew the districts last year while the case was ongoing — it could make it harder for legislators to draw up districts for partisan gain in 2020.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down two congressional districts in North Carolina Monday because race played too large a role in their creation, a decision voting rights advocates said would boost challenges in other states.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Republicans in North Carolina unlawfully took race into consideration when drawing congressional district boundaries, concentrating black voters in an improper bid to diminish their statewide political clout.
The justices upheld a lower court's February 2016 ruling that threw out two majority-black U.S. House of Representatives districts because Republican lawmakers improperly used race as a factor when redrawing the legislative map after the 2010 census.
Washington, D.C.—Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement after the administration announced its proposed budget for FY 2018.
Washington, D.C.—Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement after the administration announced their proposed budget for FY 2018.
"This budget proposal is awful. It's the most conservative we've ever seen and it's not reflective of our nation's growing needs," said Congresswoman Adams.
Charlotte, N.C.—Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision to uphold the lower court's ruling that said the Republican-led general assembly relied too heavily on race when drawing the NC congressional maps.
"Today's allegations are alarming," said Congresswoman Adams. "It is becoming more and more apparent that there is an entanglement between this administration and Russia and that the President may have obstructed the investigation into it. In light of today's revelation, we must demand an independent commission to find the truth, free of interference from the Trump administration."
DAVIDSON – U.S. Rep. Alma Adams was in town Thursday, May 11, visiting with people at the Ada Jenkins Center and Davidson Housing Coalition, speaking with officials at Davidson College and touring the downtown area.
In the middle of all that, Adams, a Democrat who represents the state's 12th district, held a town hall-type meeting in the Davidson Town Hall.
Health care costs for North Carolinians enrolled in the Affordable Care Act would jump under the plan passed by House Republicans, according to an independent analysis.
Subsidies in the form of tax credits for a family making $50,000, North Carolina's median income, would fall by as much as $14,400 a year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy research organization. In Mecklenburg County, credits would drop by $12,550.
Is President Donald Trump standing by his stated earlier commitment to support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), or is he backing off, using some oblique constitutional reason not to do so?
Last Friday afternoon, the Trump White House issued a statement upon signing HR. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2017, which was recently passed by Congress to fund the federal government by $1.1 trillion through September 2017.
What was notable about the law was that even Democrats, like Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12), were pleased with it.