WASHINGTON _ North Carolina's 13 congressional districts will remain in place and so will the Nov. 6, 2018, election, a federal three-judge panel ruled Tuesday.
The panel ruled last week that the districts are unconstitutional due to "partisan gerrymandering" designed to produce 10 Republican seats. But, with the election only two months away, the plaintiffs in the case _ the North Carolina chapters of Common Cause and The League of Women Voters _ argued that it was too late to change the maps despite their victory.
On Tuesday, the court agreed.
