A federal lawsuit accusing North Carolina lawmakers of racial gerrymandering is heading to trial this week. Two Black voters ...

North Carolina is indeed one of the most gerrymandered states in the country. Gerrymandering, defined by Merriam-Webster, is ...

Two Black voters are arguing that state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by “cracking” a majority Black Senate ...

Kate Compton Barr lost her election for the North Carolina Senate last November by nearly 30 points. She knew she would — her ...

political science professor Andrew Reynolds argued in the News & Observer that gerrymandering and a Republican supermajority in the state at the time meant that North Carolina could no longer be ...

It’s House Bill 20, the Fair Maps Act. It would amend the North Carolina Constitution to require that legislative and ...

By Gene Nichol We stand at a moment of peril in North Carolina. The Republican-dominated General Assembly, aided and abetted by the most partisan state supreme court in America, has deployed extreme ...

The three seats nabbed by the GOP in a mid-decade gerrymander of North Carolina look like they will be the difference-maker. First the math: As of Thanksgiving weekend, the Associated Press has ...

An appeals court has agreed that a federal trial judge acted properly last month in declining to rule on the eligibility of ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.

With the rise of partisan gerrymandering of North Carolina’s General Assembly and congressional districts, the lament that ...

Rep. Erin Paré, a Holly Springs Republican who was recently appointed a chair of the House Appropriations Committee, filed ...