RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court told North Carolina officials late Tuesday they must use some but not all of the state’s legislative districts that other federal judges redrew for this year’s elections. The Supreme Court’s order means more than half of those districts redrawn by Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily will revert to their shapes from last summer. Tuesday’s ruling means Democrats could find it harder to win more House districts than they hoped. But GOP legislative leaders argued the issue was an issue that needed to be settled in state court and not by the federal judges. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of North Carolina Republicans last month when the justices delayed enforcement of another three-judge panel’s decision that struck down the state’s congressional map for excessive partisanship.

Source: National Post February 07, 2018 00:36 UTC