TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 7, 2022

A group representing state chief justices is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to shield actions taken by state legislatures affecting federal elections — such as reconfiguring electoral districts and imposing voting restrictions — from the scrutiny of state courts. Reuters reports that the bipartisan Conference of Chief Justices filed the brief yesterday in a case involving a map of congressional districts drawn by the North Carolina legislature. The state's top court struck the map down, concluding that the districts were intentionally biased against Democrats. Defenders of the map argue that the U.S. Constitution gives legislatures, not state courts, authority over election rules, including the drawing of electoral districts. Yahoo News has the story.