“With just one day to go before he leaves office, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory threw a legal Hail Mary to the U.S. Supreme Court in another apparent effort to undermine his Democratic successor’s ability to govern,” the Washington Post reports. “McCrory filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause court-ordered special elections for more than two dozen state legislative districts in 2017 – special elections in which Democrats could have an opportunity to pick up seats in North Carolina’s GOP-dominated legislature.”