A federal judge this week upheld the North Carolina Senate map, siding with Republicans who had been accused of intentionally diluting the voting power of Black Democrats in the northeastern part of the state.
U.S. District Court Judge James Dever, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, wrote that the voters in Northeastern North Carolina who brought the complaint hadn’t proved that Black voters were being discriminated against due to their race and that the situation didn’t merit redrawing the map to create a majority-Black state Senate district. […]