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In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court,
gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office. 
The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state.
Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage.

God’s Chief Justice
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.