Michigan congressional districts will not be redrawn in a dispute over political gerrymandering.
The US Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling which ordered 34 congressional and state legislative districts be redrawn. Forces for Michigan Democrats had charged Republicans with packing some districts full of likely Democratic voters so that Republicans would get majorities. The high court had previously ruled in cases from North Carolina and Maryland that disputes about gerrymandering and political boundary lines were a matter for the states, and beyond the reach of the federal courts. The Michigan ruling followed that decision.
A new commission is expected to take over the boundary process.
The justices were split 5 to 4 along party and ideological lines.