The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether North Carolina’s 2011 Congressional redistricting plan violated the Constitution by relying too heavily on race in drawing district boundaries.
Orders released Monday … said the justices will take up the redistricting struck down by a lower court in a 2-1 ruling in February of this year.
That same month, the shorthanded, eight-justice Supreme Court refused to step in to relieve the state’s obligation to redraw the boundaries. The denial of the stay was one of the court’s first official actions following the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Five justices are needed to grant such a stay, but only four are needed to add a case to the court’s docket.
