But a series of legal challenges, including a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling, have cast many of those district lines into doubt.
Legal experts said the ruling bolsters similar challenges in Georgia and Louisiana, where voting rights groups have argued that Republican-drawn maps marginalized Black voters.
In Ohio, the state Supreme Court appears set to alter course after previously finding Republican maps violated the state constitution’s prohibition on gerrymandering.
In Wisconsin, the most expensive state Supreme Court election in U.S. history resulted in a new liberal majority.
OTHER BATTLESLast month, the Utah Supreme Court heard arguments over the state’s Republican-drawn congressional map, which carved Democratic Salt Lake County into four separate districts.
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