Federal Courthouse in Winston-Salem, NC (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline)
The federal three-judge panel considering a North Carolina redistricting lawsuit will allow election district critics to update their complaints to include the new 1st Congressional District.
Two groups who sued over congressional and legislative districts two years ago asked the federal judges to allow them to amend their complaints to include the new 1st District, whose boundaries legislative Republicans approved last week.
One group of plaintiffs includes Common Cause, the North Carolina NAACP, and individual voters. The other lawsuit was filed on behalf of nearly two dozen Black and Latino voters.
Republicans redrew the district at the behest of President Donald Trump, who is seeking to maximize Republican U.S. House wins in the midterm election.
The previous version of the 1st District, drawn for the 2024 election, was already the subject of the consolidated lawsuits filed in 2023. Plaintiffs claimed that Republicans in the General Assembly approved legislative and congressional districts that diluted the power of Black voters.
The three-judge panel heard arguments in the case last summer but has not issued an opinion.
The latest 1st District boundaries, established last week, dismantle the Black Belt, counties in northeastern and eastern North Carolina with a bloc of Black voters. Those voters have helped elect Black members to Congress since 1992.
The 1st District was the only competitive congressional district in the state last year. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Don Davis narrowly won a second term.
The group of plaintiffs including Common Cause, the NC NAACP, and individual voters, says legislators made the district even worse in retaliation for opponents filing the lawsuit.
The updated complaint filed by individual Black and Latino voters said Republicans in the legislature violated the Constitution and federal law in targeting Black voters.
Lawyers for Republican legislators said in a court filing this week that they did not oppose the plaintiffs amending their complaint.
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