Panel: N.D. Legislature Had Good Reason To Create Native American Subdistricts

(November 10, 2023, 9:20 AM EST) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s Legislative Assembly did not violate the equal protection rights of two men who said the state’s 2021 voter redistricting created two racially gerrymandered subdistricts that favored Native Americans because the state had good reason to believe that the Native American tribes in those areas would have claims under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) if the subdistricts weren’t drawn that way, a panel of three federal judges found in disposing of three motions for summary judgment....