06-29-2022, 08:35 AM
(06-29-2022, 07:22 AM)cannongal Wrote: I was really confused when I read about this earlier. How can a federal court insert it's nose into where state districts should be? And did they skip over the state supreme court and hop right to federal?
I hear ya, I was too, I often am in regards to the law.
The Supreme Court has something called "original jurisdiction". When they rule on a constitutional issue, their rule is final. In this particular case they ruled that a hold should be put on the lower (state) court's ruling that found a republican drawn map suppressed Black voters. The SCOTUS did not offer any reasoning behind their decision nor did any of the justices sign it. Some refer to that as a "shadow docket". This hold will remain in place (during mid-terms) until the Supreme Court makes their decision in a similar case in Alabama.