The petition garnered a lot of attention, including in a Sidebar column from Adam Liptak, no doubt it because it was backed by Edward Blum, who successfully brought the Fisher affirmative action case and Shelby County and NAMUDNO voting rights cases to the Court.
But I had been skeptical the Court would take the case, A ruling that jurisdictions could not count “all persons” for purposes of redistricting and must exclude non-citizens would have called into question thousands of districting plans across the country, and it was a theory which seemed to be in direct conflict with the constitutional text.