BREAKING: #SCOTUS issues a quick stay order, halting the district court decision striking down NC congressional districts as a partisan gerrymander pending state lawmakers’ appeal to the Supreme Court.pic.twitter.com/NCC0HCRUke
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The #SCOTUS stay halts the district court order that the state draw new congressional maps by the end of the month.
Wisconsin, Maryland, and North Carolina partisan gerrymandering cases are now at #SCOTUS, in addition to the racial gerrymandering cases out of Texas.
Also in the wings: Pennsylvania, where a partisan gerrymandering claim is at the state’s Supreme Court.https://www.google.com/amp/www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/pa-gerrymandering-republicans-partisan-fair-elections-20180117.html%3Famphtml%3Dy …
For background, here’s my report on the NC district court decision:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/court-strikes-down-north-carolinas-congressional-map-for …
Is this “normal” from a legal scholar’s perspective? Or just pure partisan politics at work?
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