NC Supreme Court Hands Win to GOP on Redistricting, Voter ID

The North Carolina Supreme Court has handed a victory to the state’s Republican legislators by siding with a petition that asked the high court to rehear cases involving election maps and voter identification laws.
In a vote along partisan lines, the state’s Supreme Court voted 5–2 on Feb. 3 to rehear the two cases in March—which had previously gone against North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers.
Two Republicans running for seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court in the November midterm election beat their Democrat opponents, flipping the composition of the court red for the first time since 2016, and reviving GOP hopes to revisit the cases….}