Correspondence from Bradford Reynolds to Brock

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November 30, 1981

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  • Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. U.S. Rules N.C. Law Violates Voting Rights News Clipping, 1981. 1c5561ae-e092-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/99bd2cff-f49f-4ff3-9690-0cd5c85229d5/us-rules-nc-law-violates-voting-rights-news-clipping. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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: WASHINGTON - rne jrstice DeDart-.' ment said Tuesday a lg6g N.C. conititu-','.: tional amendment that prohibits dividine .

, counties ro form cenerii ai*iiiurv .rJi:- tion districts ,violates. the lg65 Vo-t-ing.':.,Rights Act.: In a letter to Alex Brock, executive

The state.has 100 _ House Speaker Liston Ramsey said

hat wh,e the deci- [H:1il;:,ffi[,,"1xiff:Jll,.'J".t]lili]: 'Gene_ral Assembly will have a special ses-
sion in January to redraw the districts for ;

the 120 House and 50 Senate seats. The '

legislature had a special session in Oc- .

tober to revise earlier redistricting plansr . :

"I don't know who's right and who's .
wrong on this," Ramsey said. ,,I do know. ,

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See U.S. RULES page,llC, Col. I , ' '

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l-e.9.Igtary of the state board of elections,
William Bradford Reynolds, assistant-ai. '

.: lorney general for. ciyil, rights, wrote:

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