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Henry L. Chambers Jr., Professor of Law, University of Richmond

Supreme Court allows states to use unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections

Mississippi state legislators review an option for redrawing the state's voting districts at the state Capitol in Jackson on March 29, 2022. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful.

You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred federal courts from requiring states to fix their newly adopted, but unlawful, congressional maps before the 2022 midterm congressional elections.

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