RALEIGH, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Within a week, North Carolina will likely have a new congressional map that could potentially give Republicans at least one more seat in Congress.

Since Eastern North Carolina will likely be carved by that new map and has a large Black population, it is expected opponents will sue, citing federal law that bans districts drawn to limit the voting power of a minority group.

However, that kind of lawsuit could soon be impossible because of a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A group of non-Black voters in Louisiana is suing over the drawing of a second majority minority district. The district was originally drawn to follow federal law that prohibits voter dilution, which refers to the reduction of a racial group’s voting power, therefore preve

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