The North Carolina General Assembly passed new congressional and state legislative maps Wednesday that will likely give Republicans three additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2024 election. The new maps will replace the remedial maps enacted by the N.C. Supreme Court in 2022, after they ruled that the maps passed in 2021 were too skewed to be used. McCorkle believes that the courts may interpret the maps as a form of racial gerrymandering in “taking away the voice of Black people more generally than just Democrats,” referring to precedent from a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that struck down an Alabama voting district on the basis that it denied representation to African American voters.