"DURHAM, N.C. (Oct. 28, 2025) - Individual voters and two pro-democracy groups are challenging the North Carolina General Assembly's latest congressional map - the fifth in six years - as an unconstitutional, retaliatory redraw designed to punish Black voters in the state's historic Black Belt for how they voted in 2024. Lawmakers passed the map with breathtaking speed and total disregard for public input or precedent."
"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU-NC) joined as co-counsel representing plaintiffs alongside Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Hogan Lovells in filing a first supplemental complaint over the new map in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The original lawsuit was filed jointly in 2023 by individual Black voters, NAACP North Carolina State Conference, and Common Cause."
"Individual plaintiffs in this filing are Dawn Daly-Mack, Calvin Jones, Arthur Lee Johnson, Barbara Jean Sutton, and Courtney Patterson. The supplemental complaint states that S.B. 249 violates the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by retaliating against voters for their political choices and obliterating the only congressional district in Eastern North Carolina where Black voters could consistently elect their candidate of choice."
Individual voters and two pro-democracy groups filed a supplemental complaint challenging North Carolina's latest congressional map as a retaliatory redraw designed to punish Black Belt voters for their 2024 votes. Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 249 in under a week to enact a mid-decade redistricting plan that dismantles NC Congressional District 1 and shifts thousands of Black voters out of their communities of representation. The ACLU, ACLU-NC, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and Hogan Lovells represent plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The complaint alleges violations of the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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