The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a lower court’s ruling that called for the redrawing of several Michigan Congressional and legislative districts ahead of the 2020 election.

On Monday, the court vacated an order from U.S. Circuit Judges Eric Clay and Denise Hood and U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist that found the state’s last redistricting process gave an unfair advantage to Republicans and violated voters’ Constitutional rights, and ruled lawmakers must redraw the districts, otherwise the court would do it for them. The ruling also ordered special state Senate elections in 2020.

The move was anticipated after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in a separate case earlier this year that found partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

Voters and other plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland challenged political maps in their states, but the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled federal courts should not police the drawing of political districts for political gain.

The Michigan case, brought by the League of Women voters and other Democratic plaintiffs, was remanded to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for further consideration.

The case challenged 34 Michigan political districts that plaintiffs said unconstitutionally “packed” or “cracked” voters into certain districts based on their political party.

Before 2018, the Michigan State Legislature was responsible for drawing congressional and state legislative district boundaries. The last maps were created in 2011, when Republicans controlled the both chambers of the state legislature and the governor’s office.

Proposal 2 transferred the power to draw legislative districts to a 13-member commission comprised of four Democrats, four Republicans and five independents. The next political maps will be drawn after the 2020 census and take effect in 2022 elections.

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