Redistricting

One of North Carolina's Congressional mapmakers, former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, spoke with "Inside Politics" last week about what happened behind closed doors.

Once again, we're checking a statement between Republican rivals in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race. Rep. Ted Budd said former Gov. Pat McCrory appointed a GOP judge who "sided with Democrats" in a ruling deciding North Carolina's new political maps. That's misleading, a fact-checker says.

The Supreme Court denied Republican lawmakers' request to block use of a congressional district map for 2022 — so close to the primaries.

The Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional districting plans more favorable to Democrats.

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn now will run for reelection in a district that largely follows the boundaries of the Asheville-area mountain district he currently represents. The first-term Republican had filed in December to run for an open seat that was closer to Charlotte, a court order made that district more likely to swing Democratic.

Legislative Republicans in North Carolina want the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a state redistricting case.

North Carolina candidates have been welcomed back into election offices to file for this year’s races following a delay that lasted over two months. But in Charlotte, Gov. Roy Cooper said the state needs an independent way to draw political districts.

A panel of trial judges has made additional changes to North Carolina’s congressional district map. One big difference is that Charlotte now has two potentially Democratic-leaning seats.

We're fact-checking a claim by a North Carolina House Democrats' Twitter account that said gerrymandering efforts were "worse" in the state Senate, and attributing some of that to two Republican senators not testifying in a redistricting trial.

The North Carolina legislature is introducing yet another redistricting map in a case that has involved multiple courts over multiple years. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, moves the conversation to a different court.