Two Black voters will make the case that the Republican-crafted map illegally splits Black voters in Eastern NC among several ...

State Sen. Phil Berger ​Sr.​ is immensely powerful. He’s the state’s most potent Republican leader. It’s possible he’s not merely an angry ideologue. | Opinion ...

Two Black voters are arguing that state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by “cracking” a majority Black Senate ...

The three seats nabbed by the GOP in a mid-decade gerrymander of North Carolina look like they will be the difference-maker. First the math: As of Thanksgiving weekend, the Associated Press has ...

Good morning and welcome to the Under the Dome newsletter. I’m Emily Vespa. Gov. Josh Stein is asking state lawmakers for ...

political science professor Andrew Reynolds argued in the News & Observer that gerrymandering and a Republican supermajority in the state at the time meant that North Carolina could no longer be ...

Kate Compton Barr lost her election for the North Carolina Senate last November by nearly 30 points. She knew she would — her ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will ...

An appeals court has agreed that a federal trial judge acted properly last month in declining to rule on the eligibility of ...

I’ve covered North Carolina politics for 20 years ... Republicans on the state court have shown no appetite for curbing gerrymandering, at least as long as it benefits their party.

Around the time this happened, political science professor Andrew Reynolds argued in the News & Observer that gerrymandering and a Republican supermajority in the state at the time meant that North ...