The Supreme Court rules against giving state legislatures unchecked control over federal elections, ruling against Republicans in North Carolina fighting for a congressional district map that would heavily favor their candidates.
is pending, if the justices want to say more about the issue before next year’s elections.
Potentially at stake were more than 170 state constitutional provisions, over 650 state laws delegating authority to make election policies to state and local officials, and thousands of regulations down to the location of polling places, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
The question for the justices was whether the U.S. Constitution’s provision giving state legislatures the power to make the rules about the “times, places and manner” of congressional elections cuts state courts out of the process.
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