Name:   Carlson - Subject:   https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-127 Date:   7/4/2023 2:11:40 PM

By a 6-3 vote, the court rejected the “independent state legislature” theory in a case about North Carolina’s congressional map. The once-fringe legal theory broadly argued that state courts have little — or no — authority to question state legislatures on election laws for federal contests.