Candidate filing in North Carolina will resume Thursday as scheduled, as the state Supreme Court refused late Wednesday to delay the use of redistricting maps endorsed by trial judges earlier in the day. In a decision released just before noon on Wednesday, the three Wake County trial court judges welcomed the new district maps for the North Carolina House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate that were approved last week by the Republican-led General Assembly. "We are proud to have secured the historic state Supreme Court ruling that resulted in a bipartisan state House map, and applaud the trial court on producing a congressional map that meets the Supreme Court's mandate," a spokesman for the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said.