The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered a preliminary injunction on Wednesday for the March primaries and suspended candidate filing until two lawsuits alleging gerrymandering are settled. The 2022 primaries are held on March 8 have been delayed until May 17. According to the order, the ruling was the result “of the great public interest in the subject matter of these cases, the importance of the issues to the constitutional jurisprudence of this State, and the need for urgency in reaching a final resolution on the merits at the earliest possible opportunity.” Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation—an independent research institute in North Carolina that examines issues of freedom, personal responsibility, and limited constitutional government—told The Epoch Times that an injunction is not unusual to North Carolina, with maps having been partially overturned several times over the years because of lawsuits. …