Supreme Court Mystery: North Dakota Challenges Its Own Redistricting Victory

Published on June 11, 2024

Observers are scratching their heads after Republican-dominated North Dakota recently took the unusual step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a redistricting lawsuit it won. The Department of Justice has yet to weigh in on the appeal. On June 10, the Supreme Court asked the Biden administration to file a brief expressing its views on the case. The redistricting plan approved by a lower court allows the state to create two new minority-majority state legislative subdistricts to help elect local Indians. In the state’s eyes, the problem with the case it won is that a three-member panel of federal district judges assumed that attempting to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) justifies racial discrimination in validating the new subdistricts....

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