N.M.'s highest court hears appeal on redrawn Congressional map

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments from the state’s Republican Party and the Legislature about whether to overturn a lower court’s decision that upholds the state’s redrawn congressional map.

Ninth Judicial District Judge Fred Van Soelen ruled in September that lawmakers did not violate the state’s constitution when it redrew the map for congressional elections and broke apart a Republican voting bloc in the southeastern part of the state in 2021.

While some degree of a partisan gerrymander is permissible, Van Soelen wrote in his ruling, constitutional protections only kick in when a gerrymander is “egregious.”

Carter Harrison appealed the lower court’s ruling on behalf of the Republican Party of New Mexico before the state Supreme Court on Monday.

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