SCOTUS denies redistricting stay as in-person meetings get underway

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to stop the redrawing of seven Michigan state House districts. The order was issued Monday in response to an appeal of a lower court’s decision declaring the districts unconstitutional. Michigan’s redistricting commission has been redrawing the boundaries to follow the lower court order while it awaited word from the high court. The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission took that effort to Detroit on Monday, starting off a series of in-person map-drawing meetings. It was a chance for community members to advise the...