Covington, No. 1:15-cv-399 (M.D.N.C. Oct. 26, 2017), ECF No. 202. The legislature elected under the racially gerrymandered 2011 districting plan has enacted a number of pieces of voting- and election-related legislation that have been struck down by state and federal courts as unconstitutional or violative of federal-law. See N.C. State Conference of NAACP v. McCrory, 831 F.3d 204, 214-15 (4th Cir. 2016), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 137 S.Ct. 1399, 198 L.Ed.2d 220 (2017) (mem.); Raleigh Wake Citizens Ass’n v. Wake Cty. Bd. of Elections, 827 F.3d 333, 352 (4th Cir. 2016); City of Greensboro v. Guilford Cty. Bd. of Elections, 251 F.Supp.3d 935, 939-40 (M.D.N.C. 2017); Cooper v. Berger, No. 16-cvs-15636 (Wake Cty. Super. Ct. Mar. 17, 2017) (three-judge panel) (stri 40, 37 L.Ed.2d 407 (1973) (<HOLDING>): In Vieth, Justice Kennedy’s controlling
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