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"We will ask the Supreme Court to affirm the lower court ruling or hear this landmark case," Phillips said. "And we are confident that the court will ultimately agree that the legislature’s extreme partisan gerrymander violates the constitutional rights of North Carolina citizens."

The landmark decision in Common Cause v. Rucho is the first of its kind in North Carolina, and a historic win in the fight for fair voting maps.

The US Supreme Court rejected a request to review a lower court ruling that found NC lawmakers unconstitutionally gerrymandered the state's legislative districts along racial lines.

The suit challenges a surprise special session that rushed through sweeping changes to state government without allowing public input.

House Bill 200 would take politics out of the way the state's congressional and legislative voting maps are drawn.

A federal court on Tuesday ordered North Carolina lawmakers to redraw the state's legislative districts by March and ruled that a special legislative election must be held in 2017.