The first of what’s expected to be multiple legal challenges against North Carolina’s new congressional map has begun, with changes made to a long-running gerrymandering lawsuit.

This week’s redistricting efforts from Republican state lawmakers tweaked a separate map they drew in 2023, which had also faced a lawsuit over allegations of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Late Thursday, the challengers in the 2023 lawsuit filed new paperwork seeking to re-focus part of their lawsuit on the new version of the map.

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The 2023 map had given Republicans 10 safe seats out of the 14 that North Carolina has in the U.S. House of Representatives. The new map eliminated the state’s only competitive district — which had been won in 2024 by Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis — a

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