{"id":1271,"date":"2017-05-22T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:15:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on SCOTUS Decision to Strike Down NC Discriminatory Redistricting Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision to uphold a lower court ruling that the state of North Carolina had engaged in intentional racially-discriminatory gerrymandering, DNC Chair Tom Perez issued the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today marks another major victory in the fight against&nbsp;Republican attempts to&nbsp;implement&nbsp;discriminatory redistricting&nbsp;plans. Republicans&nbsp;have systematically drawn&nbsp;district lines to intentionally disenfranchise&nbsp;African American&nbsp;and Latino voters for too long, but from Texas to North Carolina and beyond, the&nbsp;Constitution is catching up with them.&nbsp;As Congressman John Lewis often says, the right vote is precious &ndash; almost sacred &ndash; so&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;will not rest until our democratic process is free of all measures that deliberately discriminate in order to orchestrate&nbsp;an immoral&nbsp;GOP-driven power grab.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision to uphold a lower court ruling that the state of North Carolina had engaged in intentional racially-discriminatory gerrymandering, DNC Chair Tom Perez issued the following statement: &ldquo;Today marks another major victory in the fight against&nbsp;Republican attempts to&nbsp;implement&nbsp;discriminatory redistricting&nbsp;plans. Republicans&nbsp;have systematically drawn&nbsp;district lines to intentionally disenfranchise&nbsp;African American&nbsp;and Latino voters for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Perez on SCOTUS Decision to Strike Down NC Discriminatory Redistricting Plan - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-22T15:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-scotus-decision-to-strike-down-nc-discriminatory-redistricting-plan\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez on SCOTUS Decision to Strike Down NC Discriminatory Redistricting Plan - 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