State Sen. Phil Berger ​Sr.​ is immensely powerful. He’s the state’s most potent Republican leader. It’s possible he’s not ...

Two Black voters will make the case that the Republican-crafted map illegally splits Black voters in Eastern NC among several ...

Two Black voters are arguing that state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by “cracking” a majority Black Senate ...

North Carolina is indeed one of the most gerrymandered states in the country. Gerrymandering, defined by Merriam-Webster, is ...

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

1. In April 2023, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s new 5-2 Republican majority overturned a prior decision and held that extreme partisan gerrymandering, no matter how destructive of rights of ...

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 ...

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

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

Efforts to challenge partisan gerrymandering in state courts in red states have been mixed at best. In North Carolina, where Republicans effectively gave themselves permanent control of the state ...

Kate Compton Barr lost her election for the North Carolina Senate last November by nearly 30 points. She knew she would — her ...