State Sen. Phil Berger ​Sr.​ is immensely powerful. He’s the state’s most potent Republican leader. It’s possible he’s not ...

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

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

It’s House Bill 20, the Fair Maps Act. It would amend the North Carolina Constitution to require that legislative and ...

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 ...

Republicans are seeking to prevent a duly elected state Supreme Court justice from taking her seat. If they succeed, election denial will be institutionalized.

In practice, the most important part of the test—its evaluation of a gerrymander’s severity—often boils down to a cold, hard look at the data. Take, for instance, North Carolina’s ...

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

The Democratic incumbent got more votes. Now the Republican challenger is trying to throw out tens of thousands of them.

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.

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 ...