WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked rulings from federal courts in Ohio and Michigan that had struck down voting maps in those states as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The Supreme Court’s move was expected. The justices will soon decide, in a second pair of cases, whether voting maps can ever be so warped by politics as to cross a constitutional line. But the state’s congressional maps, in effect since 2012, have consistently yielded delegations of 12 Republicans and four Democrats. The panel ordered new maps to be drawn for the 2020 election, a ruling that the Supreme Court has now put on hold.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 19:30 UTC