Supreme Court Won’t Intervene in Dispute Over Michigan State Legislative Districts

Published on January 23, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to block the redrawing of state legislative districts in Michigan that a federal court ordered after finding the district maps violated the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA). The Supreme Court rejected an emergency application on Jan. 22 from the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to stay a lower court ruling finding that the commission-drafted maps for 13 state legislative districts in the Detroit area violate the VRA. Section 2 of the VRA prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in a large language minority group. Last year, Alabama had asked the Supreme Court to weaken Section 2. The court declined to do so, ruling 5-4 in Allen v. Milligan that the state’s electoral map for congressional elections was racially discriminatory and violated the VRA....

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