Federal Courthouse in Winston-Salem, NC (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline)
The three-judge panel considering a legal challenge to the newly drawn congressional district in northeastern North Carolina will hold a hearing on a preliminary injunction on Nov. 19.
The state NAACP, Common Cause and a group of voters known as the Williams plaintiffs asked the federal judges to block the state from holding an election using the new district lines Republican legislators approved last month.
Republicans in the state legislature joined the national redistricting war when they reconfigured election boundaries for the 1st District to draw in more GOP voters. President Donald Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their congressional district maps to maximize GOP advantages in the midterm elections.
The redrawn North Carolina map is likely to take the state’s congressional delegation from 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats to 11 Republicans and three Democrats.
The new 1st District lines dismantle a region known as the Black Belt, where a cross-county bloc of Black voters has helped elect a Black Democrat to Congress since 1992.
Republican legislators said during debates over the district that the redraw was strictly partisan, and no racial data was used to create the new lines.
The 1st Congressional District was already included among other districts in a federal racial gerrymandering case. Oral arguments were held in that case last summer. The judges have not issued a ruling yet.
The NAACP plaintiffs told the judges that the new 1st District boundaries are even worse than the district lines used in the 2024 election. They claim the new plan retaliates against voters based on how they voted.
States usually redistrict once a decade after the census. North Carolina redistricts more often to comply with court orders. This year was the first time district lines were redrawn at a president’s request.
A mid-decade redistricting “for the sole purpose of targeting the other party’s voters is a very distinct and clear attack on constitutional rights,” Dan Vicuña, senior policy director for voting and fair representation at Common Cause, told reporters during a video news conference Thursday.
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