The Democrat-controlled Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled along partisan lines that enough electoral districts of the Republican-dominated state Legislature were so racially gerrymandered that the lawmakers may have lacked authority to move two state constitutional amendments forward.
The same court ruled earlier this year that the state electoral maps drawn by the Legislature were “unlawful partisan gerrymanders” that would have unfairly given Republicans an advantage in elections.
The two amendments, the Voter ID Amendment and the Tax Cap Amendment, were approved by the General Assembly and ratified by the voters in 2018. One amendment required that voters present photo identification to vote in person; the other lowered the maximum state income tax from 10 percent to 7 percent….