A federal three-judge panel on Wednesday cleared North Carolina to use a newly redrawn congressional map crafted to help Republicans flip a Democratic-held seat as part of President Donald Trump’s multistate effort to reengineer political boundaries ahead of the 2026 elections.

Why It Matters

The map targets the state’s lone swing district, represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis, an African American lawmaker whose 1st District has been represented by Black members of Congress for more than three decades.

What To Know

The judges unanimously rejected requests for a preliminary injunction after a mid-November hearing in Winston-Salem. One day later, the same panel upheld several other districts drawn by GOP legislators in 2023 that were first used in the 2024 elections and contributed

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