In another blow to Republican efforts to extremely gerrymander representative districts to their favor, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision has rejected North Carolina Republicans’ argument regarding the “independent state legislature” theory that isolates election governance within the legislative branch of state governments, independent of oversight from judicial, executive or federal rules, NBC News reports.
The court sided with the North Carolina Supreme Court in its ruling to redraw heavily gerrymandered Congressional maps, ruling that the courts had authority to function as a check on the legislature relating to important aspects of election law.