NC voters file lawsuit challenging newly enacted state Senate map

The voting maps stand to cement the GOP's supermajority in the state Senate in 2024, in part by splitting up black communities in eastern North Carolina.

NC Senate Map: Senate Bill 758

Two Black Democratic voters in eastern North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit on Monday to block implementation of the newly enacted state Senate map before candidate filing begins in two weeks.

The lawsuit accuses Republican lawmakers of enacting a map that unconstitutionally dilutes the voting power of Black North Carolinians by failing to take into account racially polarized voting in “Black Belt counties.”