GOP Urges North Carolina Supreme Court to Let Lawmakers, Not Judges, Do Redistricting

North Carolina Republicans asked that state’s supreme court on March 14 to restore GOP legislature-approved electoral maps the court previously threw out that could lead to Republican gains in the U.S. Congress and in the state legislature.
The hearing in Raleigh, North Carolina, came in a closely watched statewide redistricting case that is likely to have significant national repercussions.
The case is a test of the controversial, once-obscure independent state legislature doctrine, under which Republicans argue that the U.S. Constitution has always directly authorized state legislatures alone to make rules for the conduct of federal elections in their respective states without state courts getting involved in the process….}