It didn’t take long for the new Republican majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court to reveal itself as a political caucus.
The seven-member court’s five Republican justices agreed on Friday to rehear redistricting and voter identification cases that the court’s previous 4-3 Democratic majority had decided only months ago.
One of the previous court’s rulings rejected redistricting maps as illegal gerrymanders. The other found that a voter photo ID law passed by the GOP-controlled General Assembly was unconstitutional. The cases will come back before the court in mid-March.
