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MOORE v. HARPER 

Opinion of the Court 

courts must not abandon their own duty to exercise judicial 
review.  In interpreting state law in this area, state courts
may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as
to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically re-
served  to  state  legislatures  by  Article  I,  Section  4,  of  the
Federal Constitution.  Because we need not decide whether 
that  occurred  in  today’s  case,  the  judgment  of  the  North 
Carolina Supreme Court is affirmed.2 

It is so ordered. 

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2 As noted, supra, at 5–6, the North Carolina Supreme Court withdrew 
the opinion in Harper II, which addressed both the remedial maps devel-
oped by the General Assembly and an order by the trial court implement-
ing an interim plan for the 2022 elections.  The remedial order, having 
been withdrawn, is not before us, and our decision today does not pass
on  the  constitutionality  of  any  particular  map  adopted  by  the  state 
courts.