The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to weight in on a dispute over Pennsylvania’s electoral map.

In Turzai v. Brandt the court was asked to consider two questions. First, “[w]hether the Pennsylvania Constitution’s substantive provisions and whatever interpretation Pennsylvania courts afford them, however atextual, can restrict time, place, and manner rules Pennsylvania’s lawmakers have passed to govern congressional elections pursuant to Article I, § 4, cl. 1, of the United States Constitution, known as the ‘Elections Clause.'” Second, “[w]hether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which has no lawmaking authority, may, consistent with the Elections Clause, adopt a redistricting plan as a remedy solely for state-law violations and, if so, whether it may, consistent with the Elections Clause, craft redistricting policy wholesale in creating that remedy.”

After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a new electoral map in early 2018, Republican legislators in Pennsylvania have sought to reinstate a previous congressional district map. They “urged the justices to intervene and overturn the ruling by the state court, which they accused of usurping the legislature’s authority over redistricting.”

The Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari without comment.