Only North Carolina Voters Can Stop the GOP Gerrymander
There’s a long-term path to defeating the gerrymander — but only if voters act to put pro-democracy judges on the state’s highest court.
Billy Corriher
Billy Corriher is the state courts manager for People's Parity Project and a longtime advocate for fair courts and progressive judges. He worked at the Center for American Progress from 2012 to 2017. Billy has helped fight Republican attempts to pack the courts in his native North Carolina with judges who would limit the rights of workers and voters, and he has worked with progressive courts advocates around the country. He also worked as a freelance journalist whose work appeared in Slate, Facing South, Governing, ThinkProgress, and other outlets. In 2021, Billy released a book titled Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina’s Courts. As a Democracy Docket contributor, Billy writes about voting and election state court cases in North Carolina and across the country.
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North Carolina voters won’t forget how the judges charged with protecting their democracy handled this attempted election theft.
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