
Lawyers for the state legislature were in court Thursday in Raleigh, arguing to throw out an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit that targets the state's new political maps as a violation of a constitutional guarantee of fair elections. The lawsuit argues the state constitution guarantees the right to fair elections, which these maps violate. The Republican-led legislature argues that no such right exists, since it's impossible to define what "fair" means. Political analyses done by outside experts, as well as by the legislature itself, show that the new maps are expected to give...