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A panel of federal judges ruled on Wednesday that North Carolina’s new congressional map can be used for the 2026 midterm elections.
The redrawn congressional districts could potentially flip one seat from Democrat to Republican.
🚨 A panel of judges has REJECTED claims of partisan and racial gerrymandering against North Carolina’s new congressional map.
The Republican-drawn map CAN be used in the 2026 midterm elections. pic.twitter.com/u2NKLpM4oO
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) November 26, 2025
CBS News has more:
The map targets the state’s only swing seat, currently held by Democratic Rep. Don Davis. The 1st District has been represented by Black members of Congress continuously for more than 30 years. The state legislature’s redrawing effort would shift the district from 48% to 44% Democratic, according to a CBS News analysis.
The three-judge panel unanimously denied preliminary injunction requests after a hearing in Winston-Salem in mid-November. The day after the hearing, the same judges separately upheld several other redrawn U.S. House districts that GOP state lawmakers initially enacted in 2023. They were first used in the 2024 elections, contributing to a Republican gain of three more congressional seats.
North Carolina is one of several states this year in which President Trump has directed the GOP to redraw maps in the middle of the decade — without courts requiring it — to avoid losing control of Congress in next year’s midterms. Besides North Carolina, Republican-led legislatures or commissions in Texas and Missouri have adopted new, more GOP-friendly maps. A lower court froze Texas’ new map last week, but the Supreme Court temporarily paused that ruling days later.
“As Democrat-run states like California do everything in their power to undermine @realDonaldTrump’s administration and agenda, North Carolina Republicans went to work to protect the America First Agenda,” Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger said.
“North Carolinians voted to send President Trump to the White House in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and this new map reflects that support. President Trump deserves a Congress that will fight for American citizens and move his agenda forward. Today’s decision thwarts the radical left’s latest attempt to circumvent the will of the people,” he continued.
As Democrat-run states like California do everything in their power to undermine @realDonaldTrump‘s administration and agenda, North Carolina Republicans went to work to protect the America First Agenda. North Carolinians voted to send President Trump to the White House in 2016,…
— Senator Phil Berger (@SenatorBerger) November 26, 2025
WRAL shared further info:
If the challengers in the case appeal, it would head directly to the United States Supreme Court.
A win there wouldn’t necessarily stop all litigation over the map but could at least keep it in place for the 2026 election — when voters will decide whether Republicans continue to control Congress for the final two years of Trump’s time in office, or if Democrats will take back power, giving them the power to launch investigations into Trump and his administration, and block his legislative agenda.
The challengers didn’t immediately announce plans to appeal. But they indicated after an earlier court hearing on the case that if they lost, an appeal would be coming. “We must continue this fight,” said Deborah Dicks Maxwell, president of the state NAACP, one of the groups suing. “And we will take it wherever we can. Because people deserve their constitutional rights.”
“Enough is enough,” Maxwell said. “This is the swift urgency of now that we must continue to fight for the rights of people to represented by people who want to represent them. Not just have their name where they can go and vote for someone who is threatening them that we need to have another congressional district.”
After the ruling was published Wednesday, Bob Phillips, the state leader for Common Cause, another group that sued over the maps, indicated more legal action is likely.