The same three-judge Wake County Superior Court panel several weeks ago blocked the state from using a congressional map created in 2016 in next year’s elections, suggesting that map’s boundaries were gerrymandered to favor Republicans. Monday’s decision clears the way for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives to file their paperwork to represent new districts drawn on Nov. 15 by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled General Assembly. “The net result is the grievous and flawed 2016 map has been replaced,” Judge Paul Ridgeway said during a hearing, the Charlotte Observer newspaper reported.
