Common Cause of NC policy director Ann Webb on the latest gerrymandering trial

Gerrymandering: it refuses to go away. Despite widespread and growing public awareness and outrage, North Carolina Republican lawmakers continue to use it to rig our state’s elections by drawing districts guaranteed to give themselves large majorities and dilute the power of Black voters. Fortunately, voting rights advocates and good government groups are refusing to give up in their efforts to end this pernicious practice and this week, they’ll be back in federal court in Winston-Salem.

The case is known as Williams v. Hall and in it, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice is challenging North Carolina’s 2023 congressional and state legislative voting maps on behalf of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Common Cause, and eight individual voters. And recently, Newsline sat down with Common Cause policy director Ann Webb to learn more.

Click here to listen to the full interview with Ann Webb.