The honorable Paul C. Ridgeway makes comments as a three-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court presides over the trial of Common Cause, et al v. Lewis, et al at the Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, July 15, 2019. The trial begins Monday in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina legislative districts on the basis that the boundaries were excessively partisan in aiding Republican candidates. The partisan gerrymandering case continued despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that declared such matters are not the purview of federal courts. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)