From The Nevada Independent:

Republican-backed efforts to challenge Nevada’s electoral maps in court on the heels of redistricting are likely on ice for the 2022 election cycle.

A decision by Senior District Judge Robert Estes during a virtual hearing Wednesday will have the likely effect of keeping the new legislative district maps — which largely favor Democrats — in place for the 2022 election. The hearing largely focused on a request for a delay in candidate filing while the lawsuit is pending. 

Estes said in a ruling from the bench that it would be “not fair” to interrupt the ongoing election process and two-week candidate filing period, which began on Monday, and said that the “election is going to proceed” under the boundary lines adopted after November’s special legislative session.

“Without clear standards, without a clear constitutional statement, there’s nothing that this court can find that the plaintiff is probably going to win, and have this court declare that there is unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering,” he said. “Not to say that in another kind of hearing that they might prevail, but I can’t say that it’s real clear that they’re going to.”