How democracy dies, right here in America

The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature recently approved a bill redrawing the state’s 14 congressional districts. The map makes it quite likely that, in a state almost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, the GOP will win 10 or 11 House seats in 2024.

“There is no doubt the congressional map that’s before us today has a lean toward Republicans,” Destin Hall, the GOP chair of the redistricting commission acknowledged. Former Attorney General Eric Hold...