Challengers say they'll appeal the decision to the state supreme court, where Democrats have a slight advantage.
Although Democrats won approximately 50% of the votes in U.S. House races in 2020, they currently hold five Congressional seats compared to eight for Republicans.
The judges suggested that a claim of racial gerrymandering might have held more sway with the court, noting that challengers could have made a claim that the partisan gerrymandering diluted the minority vote under the Voting Rights Act, but"either for strategic reasons or a lack of evidence," plaintiffs chose not to.
"We remain confident that our conclusive evidence of partisan bias, obfuscation, and attacks on Black representation, from expert testimony to the mapmakers' own admissions, will convince the state's highest court to protect voters from nefarious efforts to entrench partisan power at the expense of free elections and fair representation," said Hilary Harris Klein, a senior counsel for voting rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
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