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We're fact-checking a claim by a North Carolina House Democrats' Twitter account that said gerrymandering efforts were "worse" in the state Senate, and attributing some of that to two Republican senators not testifying in a redistricting trial.
On Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down GOP-drawn congressional and state legislative maps. The General Assembly will now have to draw new maps by Feb. 18. The end result will impact North Carolina's representation in the U.S. House next year and could impact the balance of power in Raleigh for the next 10 years.
The North Carolina General Assembly has agreed to delay the state's already postponed primaries for U.S. Senate, House, the legislature and other positions by another three weeks.
North Carolina Republican legislators want to delay the date for this year's primary, which has already been pushed back two months by the state Supreme Court. GOP leaders on Monday announced plans for the General Assembly to vote Wednesday on a bill that would push the May 17 primary to June 7.
A North Carolina judicial panel has refused to throw out redistricting maps drawn by the Republican-controlled General Assembly, rejecting arguments that the lines were illegally politically stacked for the GOP.