NC Supreme Court Considers Overturning Past Redistricting Rulings

North Carolina's newly conservative majority Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about the power to set the state's internal political boundaries. The court is taking up the question of fairness of the state's maps after the makeup of the court changed last November. Three key North Carolina justices signaled a degree of hostility to the arguments brought by attorneys representing the groups that defended the current congressional maps in the state. If the case breaks their way, Republicans in the state could put a new map in place that would have 11 Republican-leaning districts and three Democratic-leaning ones.