Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional elections

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Elections Clause vests in “the Legislature” of “each State” and in “Congress” the power to prescribe the “Times, Places, and Manner” of congressional elections. U.S. Const., art. I, §4, cl. 1. Ohio’s legislature recently exercised that power by adopting a congressional district map. The Ohio Supreme Court found that the map violated the Ohio Constitution and invalidated it. It determined that any map must ensure that Democratic candidates are likely to win six of Ohio’s fifteen House seats to provide adequately proportional representation. Pet.App.19a. The questions presented are: 1. Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature’s power to regulate congressional elections. 2. Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by dictating the results that congressional district maps must achieve or by crafting extraconstitutional rules for state legislatures to follow when drawing such maps.