A federal judge ruled that NC Senate districts that split Black Belt counties do not violate the Voting Rights Act. (NCGA screenshot0
A federal district judge ruled for the General Assembly in a redistricting lawsuit, saying Republicans did not create Senate districts in northeastern North Carolina that improperly dilute Black voting power.
Two Black residents, Moses Matthews and Rodney Pierce, sued the legislature in 2023, arguing that the Republican-drawn state Senate map split eastern Black Belt counties in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act. The plan deprives Black voters from electing a candidate of their choice, the lawsuit said.
Republicans said they did not use racial data in drawing the election districts.
“Today, the court confirmed the #NCGA was right not to use race in its redistricting process,” Senate leader Phil Berger said in a statement on X. “The VRA can’t be weaponized to make up for the shortcomings of the Democratic Party. I am glad this latest attempt by partisan interests to undo our fair and legal Senate districts was rejected by the court.”
District Judge James Dever III pointed to the election of Sen. Dan Blue of Raleigh and US Rep Valerie Foushee to argue that successful Black politicians do not need to run in districts where a majority of voters are Black.
“The evidence demonstrates that legally significant racially polarized voting does not exist in North Carolina generally,” in northeast North Carolina, or in Senate districts that were the subject of the lawsuit, wrote Dever, a President George W. Bush appointee.
This is the second time Dever has ruled against Matthews and Pierce, who is now a state Representative.
When they filed their lawsuit in 2023, their lawyers failed to convince Dever that the districts should be redrawn before the 2024 election. Tuesday’s order can be appealed.
Voting in the state demonstrates polarization based on party rather than race, Dever wrote, with white voters choosing Republicans and Black voters choosing Democrats.
Another redistricting decision over a lawsuit claiming Voting Rights Act violations in the creation of state Senate and congressional districts is pending from a federal three-judge panel.
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