Travis Fain, WRAL – The General Assembly’s Republican majority laid the groundwork Thursday for a coming redraw of the state’s Congressional and legislative maps, kicking off an every-decade redistricting process by setting rules for the redraw. Democrats, whose suggestions were largely cast aside by GOP leadership, criticized the rules as overly vague, and they questioned whether maps this legislature ultimately will draw can pass muster against legal challenges both sides expect. The state was in and out of court for most of the past decade, spending tens of millions on attorneys and drawing one set of maps after another after judges found racial and partisan gerrymanders in the state’s maps.

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