North Carolina Republicans Move to Further Cement Congressional Majority
By Marge | Published 2025-10-21T16:34:24.86+00:00
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North Carolina -- October 21, 2025: North Carolina’s General Assembly is currently advancing a new congressional map, the latest step in a clear and aggressive strategy to secure a durable partisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The proposed map, Senate Bill 249 (SB 249), is designed to take the state’s current 10-4 Republican advantage and increase it to a likely 11-3 split by targeting the last remaining competitive seat.This action is a direct continuation of the maps enacted in October 2023, a process made possible by a critical legal shift: in April 2023, the Republican-majority N.C. Supreme Court overturned its prior ruling, holding that claims of partisan gerrymandering are "political questions" and non-justiciab