The Redistricting Commission, which was charged with approving new congressional and legislative district maps, didn’t approve those new maps by the commission’s constitutional deadline of midnight Nov. 15. The commission then said it was ceding the responsibility for redistricting to the state Supreme Court, following a process outlined in the state constitution.
Yet on Friday, the court announced it would not be taking on the responsibility of redrawing the state’s political boundaries.
In a five-page order, the court’s nine justices said the Redistricting Commission actually had met its statutory obligations, despite not releasing completed redistricting maps until a day after its deadline.
“This is not a situation in which the
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