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

We stand at a moment of peril in North Carolina. The Republican dominated ... has deployed extreme political gerrymandering to dramatically marginalize Democrats in the state legislature.

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Josh Stein is asking state lawmakers for $1.07 billion in Hurricane Helene recovery funds to address Western North ...

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

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

Efforts to challenge partisan gerrymandering in state courts in red states have been mixed at best. In North Carolina, where Republicans effectively gave themselves permanent control of the state ...

While gerrymandering for maximum effect has by ... party’s most valuable gerrymanders" in states like Virginia and North Carolina. Conversely "No state courts have acted to weaken Democratic ...