RALEIGH, N.C. AP – A pair of lawsuits challenging North Carolina’s new Republican-penned boundaries for congressional and legislative seats can move forward, a three-judge panel said Monday.
The Superior Court judges refused to dismiss the lawsuits, and it threw out less than half of the 37 claims offered by attorneys for Democratic elected officials, civil rights and election watchdog groups and voters from about 200 pages filed in November. Lawyers for the state and legislative leaders had wanted the lawsuits themselves thrown out.
