What's interesting is, the two key findings the NC supreme court made were:
1) the "free elections" clause of the state cons ution includes a ban on partisan gerrymandering
2) the equal protection clause of the state cons ution means that districts need to be drawn with partisan fairness in mind (this isn't the same as a ban on partisan gerrymandering as it goes a step further and mandates that districts need to be drawn while weighing partisan fairness as a factor)
2) has almost no basis and it's where the NCSC clearly abused its discretion; 1) is a lot more unclear and ambiguous, with state supreme court rulings that go both ways interpreting free elections clauses all over the country.
This whole lawsuit was stupid because the GOP just won the state supreme court in NC back and they're now able to gerrymander the map with a state supreme court that'll just overrule 1) and 2) as precedent. Where I think this lawsuit could significantly backfire for Moore is if SCOTUS makes a finding that overrules 2) but agrees with 1) and basically forces the new GOP court majority in North Carolina to read NC's "free elections" clause to include a ban on partisan gerrymandering.