Source: WUNC, 6/7/22


Republican state lawmakers seeking more control over redistricting could get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. At a regularly scheduled conference next Thursday, the high court will consider whether to accept a petition by GOP legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly, known as granting certiorari. Attorneys representing top Republican lawmakers filed the petition in March, asking the Court to take up arguments over a conservative principle known as the "independent state legislature" theory.

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