Court allows North Carolina's new Republican-drawn US House map to take effect

(Reuters) -A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina on Wednesday cleared the way for a new congressional map to be used in the ​2026 midterm elections, in a win for President Donald Trump's effort to help Republicans ‌retain control of Congress next year.

The judges rejected arguments by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Common Cause and several ‌Black and Hispanic voters that the redrawn map the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly enacted last month amounted to unconstitutional political retaliation and diluted the voting power of Black voters.

U.S. Circuit Judge Allison Rushing and U.S. District Judges Richard Myers and Thomas Schroeder, all appointed by Republican presidents including Trump, backed ⁠the state's contention that the ‌mid-decade redistricting effort constituted nothing more than partisan gerrymandering, which the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 ruled judges had no power to curb.

In seeking a ‍preliminary injunction against the new map, the plaintiffs in the two lawsuits before the court failed to establish a likelihood of succeeding on their claims, the judges said.

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