Supreme Court Rejects GOP Bid to Transform Federal Election Law

The US Supreme Court rejected a sweeping Republican-backed effort to oust state judges and administrators from longstanding roles in federal elections, resolving a key constitutional issue in advance of the 2024 vote.

Ruling 6-3 in North Carolina redistricting case, the high court turned aside GOP arguments that the Constitution gives state lawmakers near-exclusive power to set the rules for congressional and presidential votes.

The Constitution “does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review,” Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Roberts and the court’s three liberals ...