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MOORE v. HARPER 

KAVANAUGH, J., concurring 

election.  See, e.g., Republican National Committee v. Dem-
ocratic National Committee, 589 U. S. ___, ___ (2020) (per 
curiam)  (slip  op.,  at  2);  Purcell  v.  Gonzalez,  549  U. S.  1 
(2006) (per curiam).  In light of the Purcell principle and the 
particular circumstances and timing of the impending pri-
mary elections in North Carolina, it is too late for the fed-
eral courts to order that the district lines be changed for the
2022 primary and general elections, just as it was too late
for the federal courts to do so in the Alabama redistricting 
case  last  month.    See  Merrill  v.  Milligan,  595  U. S.  ___ 
(2022) (KAVANAUGH, J., concurring).

For  that  reason,  I  concur  in  the  Court’s  denial  of  the 

emergency application for stay.