
State Courts, Voting Maps, and the Supreme Court
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Is Purcell a State Supreme Court Map?
Only seven days before the dead line for candadates to file on march fourth, promptly granting a stay would have only been minimally disruptive in the circumstances here. So as long as you like, flip a switch, candidates would still have had five days to know which map's applied. The big difference between this and alabama is that here we're deciding between a state supreme court map and a state legislative map. Interestingly, that actually does not implicate purcell at all. Purcell is about federal courts stepping in on state elections too close to the election. And then, of course, there's the purcel problem.
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