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MOORE v. HARPER
Opinion of the Court
courts must not abandon their own duty to exercise judicial
review. In interpreting state law in this area, state courts
may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as
to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures by Article I, Section 4, of the
Federal Constitution. Because we need not decide whether
that occurred in today’s case, the judgment of the North
Carolina Supreme Court is affirmed.2
It is so ordered.
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2 As noted, supra, at 5–6, the North Carolina Supreme Court withdrew
the opinion in Harper II, which addressed both the remedial maps developed by the General Assembly and an order by the trial court implementing an interim plan for the 2022 elections. The remedial order, having
been withdrawn, is not before us, and our decision today does not pass
on the constitutionality of any particular map adopted by the state
courts.
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