By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina on Wednesday cleared the way for a new congressional map to be used in the 2026 midterm elections, in a win for President Donald Trump’s effort to help Republicans retain control of Congress next year.

The judges rejected arguments by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Common Cause and several Black and Hispanic voters that the redrawn map the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly enacted last month amounted to unconstitutional political retaliation and diluted the voting power of Black voters.

U.S. Circuit Judge Allison Rushing and U.S. District Judges Richard Myers and Thomas Schroeder, all appointed by Republican presidents including Trump, backed the state’s contention that the mid-d

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