State Justices Ask Supreme Court to Preserve Redistricting Role

State chief judicial officers urged the US Supreme Court to reject a sweeping ruling that would significantly limit state court authority to review election maps and rules, in a rare friend-of-the-court brief.

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The Conference of Chief Justices, which includes the top judicial officers of each of the 50 state and US territories, has filed seven other amicus briefs since 2002, according to a search of the Supreme Court’s docket, including in a 2015 case in which the justices agreed that state limits on judicial elections were constitutional.

The brief ...