Another amicus brief in connection to the stay request, this one from four Republican states:
Fundamentally, partisan gerrymandering is the undeniable and historically permitted consequence of entrusting reapportionment to an inherently political body: state legislatures. Notwithstanding the misgivings that fact arises in this, or any other federal court, the simple truth is that there exists now—and has always existed—a non-judicial remedy to partisan gerrymandering claims: the power of the people to choose their State representatives.