The Court has asked for another round of briefing on what the heck should happen in Moore v. Harper, the current vehicle for the “independent state legislature” challenge, now that the North Carolina Supreme Court has said that the state constitution doesn’t prohibit the legislature from partisan gerrymandering.  This’ll be quick: briefs are all due by next Thursday.

The North Carolina Constitution doesn’t really purport to set any other specific criteria for congressional districts (there are still some constraints for state legislative lines), so I’m not sure what relief the legislature would be asking for here. (And as others have noted, the Ohio case is waiting in the wings.)