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

A sign reminds voters they need photo ID to vote on Election Day at a polling station at Hillsboro Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 6, 2018. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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.