Assembly Nc Rep News Today

North Carolina state Rep. Deb Butler called a three-judge panel that ruled that GOP-drawn legislative and congressional maps could stand partisan and implied the judges’ decisions were partisan. Most of her tweet was wrong, says fact-checker Paul Specht of WRAL.

A three-judge panel has rejected claims from voting rights advocates that the Republican maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.

All but a handful of Democratic caucus members left their desks for the exits as Rep. Donnie Loftis of Gaston County took the oath of office Monday evening.