North Carolina lawmakers OK new 2020 congressional maps. Now it's up to the courts.

The Republican-led North Carolina Senate approved a new congressional district map Friday to be used in 2020 that is likely to shrink the GOP’s edge in the state’s congressional delegation.

But Democrats plan to challenge the map in court again.

The map passed the N.C. House on Thursday, part of a swift process completed with the Dec. 2 opening of the filing period for congressional candidates in mind. Lawmakers drew the new map after a three-judge panel indicated it was likely to toss the previous map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The map passed the Senate on a party line vote.

“We did our best,” said Sen. Paul Newton, a Republican who served on the redistricting committee. “We’ll give it to the court and the court will do what the court will do.”

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