State Lines October 20, 2023 Transcript

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STATE LINES
Run time: 26m 46s
Video has closed captioning

Topics: NC House Republicans announce new Congressional district maps; Gov. Cooper sues NC GOP leaders over election laws; PETA sues against hidden camera law; and UNC discusses free speech on campus. Panelists: Political strategist Morgan Jackson, former NC Attorney General Rufus Edmisten, Lucille Sherman (Axios Raleigh) and Mitch Kokai (John Locke Foundation).

Host: PBS NC’s Kelly McCullen.
Aired: 10/20/23
Rating: NR

Transcript (partial)

- [Narrator] House Republicans release a first option of new possible North Carolina congressional district maps, and free speech climbs the agenda as the Hamas-Israeli conflict sparks public demonstrations at UNC Chapel Hill.

This is State Lines.

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I'm Kelly McCullen and we have a great panel today, an expert panel, I dare say.

Mitch Kokai to my right, from the John Locke Foundation.

Former North Carolina attorney general Rufus Edmisten, a C2 political strategist Morgan Jackson, and holding it down for the Capitol Press Corps, Lucille Sherman, Axios Raleigh.

Well, we usually have more reporters.

You're outnumbered, Lucille, my apologies.

[Lucille chuckles] Busy week.

Let's start with redistricting in North Carolina.

Morgan, we'll pass it to you first, but North Carolina's House leaders have released some versions of new congressional and legislative House districts this week.

North Carolina Supreme Court made redistricting possible by overturning a late 2022 court ruling that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

Read the court case if you wanna know why they changed their mind.

Attention is on the state House's possible maps for Congress, though, that would seem to give Republicans a 10:4 or 11:3 majority of US House seats after the 2024 election.

North Carolina's currently served by seven Republicans and seven Democrats.

Morgan, I know you're paying attention to it.

Complicated topic, most folks aren't really paying attention.

Can you make it simple?

- Absolutely.

I'll start by saying this is probably the most egregious gerrymander that we've seen on the federal level in North Carolina ever, which says a lot.

That is a mouthful given what the gerrymanders we've seen over the last several years.

I mean, this is truly a gerrymander on steroids.

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Additional airings of this episode are scheduled for
2:00am, 10/21/2023 | North Carolina Channel
4:00pm, 10/21/2023 | North Carolina Channel
9:30am, 10/22/2023 | North Carolina Channel
10:30am, 10/22/2023 | PBSNC
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