As I write this post, less than three business days remain until the next meeting of the NCGA House Select Committee on Judicial Redistricting on September 27th. At that meeting, it seems that the new round of changes to the proposed judicial district maps (as of yet, still not publicly

Not sure whether this will become a Friday tradition, but I felt compelled to post a limerick today about HB 717. I tweeted it this morning, but in limiting it to 140 non-formatted characters, I had to sacrifice a bit of punctuation and emphasis. Here it is in full form:

Not having seen any coverage of the details of HB717's proposed changes to the judicial district maps, I thought I would investigate and post some myself. The figures below the graphic relate to the District Court Districts maps (simplified rendering of the proposed map below).   Existing Proposed Number of

Earlier today I posted about HB717's proposed District Court districts, and provided a map to better explore them. The Superior Courts have fewer judges, but try more significant cases – it seemed worthwhile to provide a map to explore their proposed districts, too: .embed-container {position: relative; padding-bottom: 80%; height: 0; max-width:

If you live in one of North Carolina's eight most populous counties (and evidently about 40% of North Carolinians do), your county may soon be divided in a new way. All of these counties currently have a single District Court district, but the proposed House Bill 717 would split each