A three-judge panel has ruled that North Carolina MUST redraw new congressional district boundaries as soon as possible, because the existing ones are illegally gerrymandered.
The ruling marks the second time this decade that the GOP's congressional boundaries in the state have been thrown out by a three-judge panel. In 2016, another panel tossed out two majority black congressional districts initially drawn in 2011, saying there was no justification for using race as the predominant factor in forming them. The redrawn map was the basis for a new round of lawsuits.