North Carolina voting rights ‘still in five-alarm fire’ despite supreme court ruling

Republicans failed to defend a fringe legal theory, but they are already pushing through new state election legislation

The US supreme court ruled in favor of North Carolina voting rights groups last week, which celebrated with one breath and with the next condemned the new election laws and political maps being pushed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature.

We are still in a five-alarm fire here in North Carolina," said Gino Nuzzolillo, campaign manager for the state's Common Cause branch, which was one of the plaintiffs that won in the case the supreme court ruled on.