Supreme Court delivers massive blow to Dems​' last-ditch gerrymander gambit

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11. It is the issue - both things are true

They generally won’t mess with a state court’s interpretation of state law and/or constitution…. EXCEPT when that decision is in conflict with the federal constitution (or a federal law where the supremacy clause applies).

Which is why they tried to raise a pair of federal constitutional issues. They were pretty weak tea so they were potentially ignored regardless… but the failure to make the claim in the lower courts was a big miss that could have gotten it tossed as well