@tc_morekindness but that's a contradiction then: the district system conflicts with a proportional vote, so the court would have erred to interpret the system as proportional while ordering districts.

If that's what happened then the ruling contradicted itself.

If the court really believed a constitution required proportional voting, it should have ordered the dissolution of all districts and a statewide vote.

No matter which way you slice it, the previous court ruling seems to have been wrong.

NC judicial process allows for an appeal of a ruling within a certain number of days, so they appealed the ruling, and the new court merely recognized that the old court ruling was wrong and therefore must be void.

It's exactly how the system was supposed to work to make sure election law is upheld.