The Supreme Court is refusing to block California’s new congressional map, passed by voters in the state last year.
Here’s more from NBC News:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new congressional map that voters approved, delivering a major victory for Democrats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The decision came down in a one-sentence order that provided no explanation or dissents. Republicans had asked the high court to block California’s redrawn district lines, alleging they were racially gerrymandered.
The map, drawn by Democratic lawmakers and passed by voters last November through the Proposition 50 ballot measure, gives the party an opportunity to pick up as many as five House seats as they seek to win a majority in the chamber this fall.
A federal district court had ruled last month to refuse to block California’s map, concluding that the lines were drawn on a partisan basis, not a racial one as Republicans had argued.
Republicans had asked the Supreme Court to act by Feb. 9. The candidate filing deadline in California is March 6 and the primary is June 2.
This doesn’t shock me at all. The high court is accused of politics enough and doesn’t want to appear political, especially during an election year.
So I guess this means redistricting maps for everyone this year.