Blog Post C9-3 Supreme Court Blocks Special Election

According to the New York Times, last Tuesday the Supreme Court blocked a trial courts ruling that order a special election in North Carolina. Since in Class we are studying the Supreme Court this article goes with that subject. The Supreme Court's brief gave no reasoning on why. They said that it would be temporary on what the lower courts decision and would last as long as it takes the justices to consider an appeal. Back in August the trail courts found the state's legislative map was corrupted with unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, but they let the November election to continue, saying it was to late to change it. An appeal of the August decision is already in front of the Court. State Officials separately asked the justices to step in a block the November ruling. If they allowed the special elections to proceed it would disrupt the lawmakers obligations that is was the officials said.

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