gerrymandering

It offers the court a chance to formally determine a metric on what constitutes unlawful gerrymandering, which could have major implications for the way voting districts are drawn in other states.

The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that struck down 28 state House and Senate districts in North Carolina because they violated the rights of black voters.

For the second time in two years, the U.S. Supreme Court has told North Carolina's highest court to review the state's political maps.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a federal court ruling that forced legislators to redraw the state's political maps last year.

The three-judge panel found that Republicans had used race as a motivating factor in redrawing districts. Texas will now consider whether to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling ordering North Carolina legislators to redraw state legislative districts by March 15 and hold special elections within the altered districts this fall.

A U.S. District Court ruled Thursday that more than two dozen state House and Senate districts are unconstitutional because they were racially gerrymandered.

The Democracy Spring coalition of progressive groups called on legislators to replace caps on campaign donations, fix the Voting Rights Act and end gerrymandering. At least 400 were arrested.