Supreme Court rejects GOP bids to block congressional maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected separate requests from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block the use of new congressional maps adopted by state courts for the 2022 election cycle, allowing the court-drawn voting lines to stay in place.

In both cases, the justices declined the emergency requests from GOP officials to set aside lower court decisions approving the court-drawn districts, which replaced the electoral maps adopted by the Pennsylvania and North Carolina state legislatures, both controlled by Republicans.

There were no noted dissents from the justices in a brief order declining the emergency request from GOP officials involving Pennsylvania's new voting lines. But in the North Carolina case, three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, said they would have halted the use of the court-approved congressional map.