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U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear North Carolina Redistricting Dispute

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The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on North Carolina's case on partisan redistricting for now.

Instead, the justices are sending the dispute over the state's congressional districting map, which is heavily weighted toward Republicans, back to a lower court for more work.

The court's order Monday follows a ruling last week in which it declared that Wisconsin voters who sued over the state's GOP-drawn legislative districts had not proven they have the right to bring their case in court. The justices ordered the court in North Carolina to examine the same issue.

On the surface, the North Carolina case doesn't appear to have the same problem the high court identified in the Wisconsin lawsuit. It could return to the Supreme Court quickly, perhaps in time for the term that begins in October.

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