Review Ordered for Republican-Drawn North Carolina Voting Maps
The Supreme Court tells a lower court to reconsider whether race played too big a role in setting the lines.
eople enter Cotswold School to vote on November 4, 2014, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The U.S. Supreme Court revived a challenge to state and federal voting maps drawn by North Carolina Republicans, telling a lower court to reconsider whether race played too big a role in setting the lines.
The order raises new questions about maps that helped Republicans take 10 of the state’s 13 U.S. congressional seats in November, up from six four years earlier. Republicans drew the new lines after winning control of the state legislature in 2010 for the first time in more than a century.