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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Which matters not only in principle but also in practice: The court’s Republican majority has abetted Republican lawmakers’ aggressive gerrymandering of North Carolina, whose current U.S ...

I also was the successful lead plaintiff-intervenor in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Shaw v Reno, that restricted racial gerrymandering and a successful plaintiff in the North Carolina Supreme ...

A federal lawsuit accusing North Carolina lawmakers of racial gerrymandering is heading to trial this week. Two Black voters will make their case that the Republican-crafted state Senate map ...