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Court rejects GOP redistricting plans in NC, Pennsylvania | AP News
Miscellaneous Order (03/07/2022) - 21a455_5if6.pdf - Brett Kavanaugh
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Opinions Relating to Orders - 2021 (March: this year)
BK agreed with SA in wanting to revisit the issue of state-legislature supremacy, but he thought that now was too late to do so with the elections soon to be underway.
Looks like they may decide that about whichever other gerrymandering cases make it into their court this year.
Supreme Court Allows Court-Imposed Voting Maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania - The New York Times
Miscellaneous Order (03/07/2022) - 21a455_5if6.pdf - Samuel AlitoThe justices provided no explanation for their actions, as is common in emergency applications on what is known as the “shadow docket.”
While the high court did not stop the state court-ordered plans from being used in this year’s elections, four conservative justices indicated they want it to confront the issue that could dramatically limit the power of state courts over federal elections in the future. The Republicans argued that state courts lack the authority to second-guess legislatures’ decisions about the conduct of elections for Congress and the presidency.
Miscellaneous Order (03/07/2022) - 21a455_5if6.pdf - Brett Kavanaugh
from
Opinions Relating to Orders - 2021 (March: this year)
BK agreed with SA in wanting to revisit the issue of state-legislature supremacy, but he thought that now was too late to do so with the elections soon to be underway.
Looks like they may decide that about whichever other gerrymandering cases make it into their court this year.
Supreme Court Allows Court-Imposed Voting Maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania - The New York Times
That makes SA, CT, NG, and BK willing to review the issue.Still, the court’s three most conservative members — Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch — said they would have blocked the North Carolina map because it was likely that the State Supreme Court had violated the Constitution in overriding the State Legislature.
“There must be some limit on the authority of state courts to countermand actions taken by state legislatures when they are prescribing rules for the conduct of federal elections,” Justice Alito wrote.