A three-judge panel ruled Monday that North Carolina’s congressional districts amount to an unconstitutional gerrymander, siding with plaintiffs Common Cause and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, marking the latest federal ruling against the Republican-controlled legislature’s drawing of the state’s congressional districts first along racial and then partisan lines. In January, the panel determined the gerrymandering amounted to a violation of the Constitution’s equal-protection clause and ordered the state to redraw the entire map before the midterm elections, the first time in American history a court demanded the total overhaul of a state-drawn electoral map. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, quickly intervened blocking the lower court ruling, ordering it to wait to reconsider the case until a similar case before the highest court was decided, making it seemingly impossible for the districts to be redrawn more fairly before the November election.
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