Supreme Court declines to intervene in North Carolina redistricting ruling
Source: CNN
(CNN)The Supreme Court late Friday declined to put on hold a lower court ruling that invalidated congressional redistricting maps in North Carolina.
Early this month, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that maps for two districts were unconstitutional, and ordered the state to redraw their lines within two weeks. The panel said that race played an impermissible role in the drawing of the districts.
The state redrew the maps but asked the Supreme Court to grant a stay that would allow the old maps to remain in effect pending further appeal.
Late Friday, the Supreme Court declined to do so. As customary, it did not release the vote tally for the decision.
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