The Supreme Court ruled Monday that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature unlawfully relied on race when drawing two of the state’s congressional districts. The decision continued a trend at the court, where justices have found that racial considerations improperly predominated in redistricting decisions by Republican-led legislatures in Virginia, Alabama and North Carolina. Redistricting is part of a bare-knuckled fight in North Carolina, where Democrats and Republicans uneasily share political power. The state’s Republican legislative leadership had asked the Supreme Court to get involved, but the Democratic governor and attorney general said they did not want to defend the law. [Supreme Court won’t consider reviving North Carolina voting law]In the case involving the congressional districts, a lower court had found them improperly drawn, and in 2016 elections were held in redrawn districts.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2017 15:22 UTC