Purcell Principle: You Can't Mess With Elections Too Close to Elections

The court 100% appears to be violating its so called purcell principle, right? Which says federal courts should not throw state elections into doubt or mess with state elections too close to the elections themselves. Purcell is the reason the court gave for throwing out an injunction of a racially jerrymandered map in alabama. The district court had issued an injunction. Court said, no, that was a problem under purcell a or the concurrence. But we have the supreme court intervening here, and apparently that's fine because it's five months. Is that the difference? Or is it that the court thinks that this purcell idea that you can't mess with election too close to elections