When North Carolinas Republican legislative leaders have seen their work struck down in court as unconstitutional as they have many times they have frequently responded by attacking the judge or judges as partisan hacks.
That approach wont work if the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court surprises the nation by throwing out the congressional district map that N.C. legislators explicitly drew to elect as many Republicans as possible.
The court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge to the North Carolina map, as well as one to a Maryland congressional district. That was…
