Legislative leaders sought to cement their ability to gerrymander their own districts without courts being able to strike them down, in arguments they made Tuesday to the N.C. Supreme Court.
In February, the state’s highest court issued a historic ruling — which the Republican lawmakers on the losing end strongly condemned — in which the justices wrote that state courts have the power to throw out maps for partisan gerrymandering.
GOP leaders appealed their losses in two different ways. They took one appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case called Moore v. Harper.
