North Carolina has joined Texas, California and other states in a national redistricting battle to try tilting the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

Republican lawmakers passed maps earlier this year that could give the GOP five more seats in Congress. Right now, Texas plans to use the new 2025 maps after Justice Samuel Alito put them in place while the U.S. Supreme Court decides what to do next. A federal district court ruled they were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders earlier this month.

Lawyers for the State and People Not Politicians met in federal court Tuesday for a hearing to determine whether a judge will block Missouri's new congressional map.

The state Supreme Court appointed panels to hear two lawsuits that could lead to the Republican-leaning map being redrawn

But the state's top court recently rebuked the "least change" approach to reviewing legislative maps, raising doubts from some justices about how the appointed panels can offer any remedy in the two cases before them.