The National Redistricting Foundation on Friday filed a lawsuit claiming North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map violated the state Constitution and created a partisan advantage for Republicans.
The complaint comes nearly a month after a state court held that North Carolina’s state legislative districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered towards Republican interest.
The new legal challenge states that Republican lawmakers adopted a “partisan advantage” criterion and directed that 13 districts be constructed to “maintain the current partisan makeup of North Carolina’s congressional delegation, namely, 10 Republicans and 3 Democrats.”
