Voting rights groups ask federal judges to block new gerrymandered NC congressional districts
Voting rights groups challenging the newly drawn 1st Congressional District in North Carolina presented an argument courts have never before considered — that the mid-decade, voluntary redistricting retaliated against voters.
A federal three-judge panel heard arguments in a Winston-Salem courtroom Wednesday about the new congressional districts in eastern and northeastern North Carolina that Republicans adopted in October. Opponents want the judges to block the new districts from being used next year.
Republicans want to make sure that the 1st Congressional District, which has been represented by a Black Democrat for more than three decades, will elect a Republican next year.
Republican President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat, both narrowly won the 1st District last year. It was considered the state’s only competitive congressional district before it was redrawn.
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