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"In writing the majority opinion, which Judge William Earl Britt joined, Judge James Wynn said partisan gerrymanders “raise the specter that the Government may effectively drive certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace” because they “intentionally seek to entrench a favored party in power and make it difficult – if not impossible – for candidates of parties supporting disfavored viewpoints to prevail.”

“That is precisely what the Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly sought to do here,” he said."

Even if true, so what? To the victors go the spoils - its the way the system works. It was the Dems that drew the obscene districts that the Repubs changed - but then it was OK?

“But that is not a choice the Constitution allows legislative map drawers to make,” he said. “Rather, ‘those who govern should be the last people to help decide who should govern.’”

I must've missed the referenced section of the Constitution. In fact, I seem to recall something about a 10th Amendment? You know: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

There is literally NOTHING in the drawing of the districts that is against the Constitution of the US or NC. These activist judges that govern from the bench are one of the greatest threats to our Republic. They rule with impunity because there is no accountability.