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The judges who struck down North Carolina's congressional map for excessive partisanship that favored Republicans refused Tuesday to delay their order telling GOP state lawmakers to draw new lines

Federal judges have ruled that North Carolina's congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-sol

The filing period for North Carolina's legislative seats begins in just six weeks. But election district boundaries are still up in the air.

Republican leaders are firing back at a federal court's decision to hire Stanford law professor Nathaniel Persily to redraw the state's legislative boundaries, saying the court never made a ruling

The course highlights the zigzagging line separating North Carolina's 10th and 11th Congressional districts. One expert says ugly districts are a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.

Nine North Carolina legislative districts redrawn by the Republican-controlled General Assembly over the summer still may be unlawful, a federal court said Thursday while announcing it planned to h

Wisconsin Republicans lost the 2012 election overall but won 60 percent of the legislative seats. They did it through extreme partisan gerrymandering. The court will weigh how far is too far.

North Carolina lawmakers have approved new legislative district maps to replace one thrown out by the courts for being illegal racial gerrymanders. But many critics say the new maps are just as bad.