Bartlett v. Stephenson

Chief Justice Rehnquist, Circuit Justice.

Applicants, North Carolina officials charged with administering t¿he State’s elections, seek a stay of a decision of the Supreme Court of North Carolina invalidating North Carolina’s 2001 state legislative redistricting plan under the North Carolina Constitution. The application is denied.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina held that the 2001 plan violated what is known as the “whole county provision” of the North Carolina Constitution, which provides that “no *1302county shall be divided in the formation of a senate or representative district,” N. C.…