After months of back and forth from state legislators and voting rights advocates, the issue of redistricting will be in front of justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Justices will hear a blockbuster redistricting case after a panel of lower-court judges ruled in favor of approving the new maps. Republicans, who control the state legislature, created and passed the new maps last year.
But some voting rights groups argue the maps were unfairly drawn, so the issue now goes to the state's highest court.
Three North Carolina Supreme Court justices have decided they won’t step aside from hearing the case this week. Associate Justices Anita Earls, Sam Ervin IV and Phil Berger Jr. denied on Monday the recusal motions targeting them from lawyers covering both sides of the litigation.
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