Congressional map challengers defend suit against motion to dismiss
Critics challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map filed paperwork Friday defending their federal lawsuits against legislators’ motion to dismiss the case.
A three-judge federal panel will consider this afternoon requests to block North Carolina’s new congressional map for the 2026 elections.
State legislative leaders are defending North Carolina’s new congressional map against a federal injunction that would block the map’s use for 2026 elections.
Federal judges will expedite two lawsuits challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map. A preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled Nov. 19 in Winston-Salem.
North Carolina legislative leaders are asking a three-judge panel to dismiss two lawsuits challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map.
Two sets of plaintiffs challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map are seeking an injunction to block its use in 2026 elections.
The North Carolina NAACP and Common Cause hope to challenge the state’s new congressional map as part of their existing federal redistricting lawsuit.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections needs to have legal issues surrounding a new congressional election map finalized by Dec. 1 to avoid administrative delays.
Plaintiffs in an existing North Carolina federal redistricting lawsuit want to supplement their existing complaint to cover the state’s new congressional map.
The three-judge panel overseeing two North Carolina federal redistricting lawsuits wants to know how the state’s new congressional map affects their cases. The judges have called on parties in the two suits to file written briefs next week.
No final decision is expected before August in a federal trial involving challenges to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative election maps. The three-judge panel overseeing the case wrapped up the six-day trial Wednesday. The judges called on parties defending and attacking the maps to submit final written documents by Aug. 5.
North Carolina’s congressional and legislative election maps head to trial next week before a three-judge federal court panel. The NAACP, Common Cause, and individual voters challenge the maps as violating the US Constitution’s ban on racial gerrymandering.