Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The justices’ rulings mean that the states’ 2022 congressional elections will go ahead using the court-drawn maps.

But although the justices declined to intervene now, four justices signaled that they believe the court should soon take up the theory at the … Read the rest