“When I read that passage, all that tells me is they just want to move it along. The legislature doesn’t want their gerrymander to get gummed up in the courts,” Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, election law professor at Indiana University Bloomington, told Democracy Docket. “They don’t want a lower court to block it, and then they have to appeal. It takes time. But by the time they resolve it and it gets to the supreme court — then it’s too late for the court to allow the new map because it’s too close to the next election.”

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