BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court on Wednesday rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps, which are aimed at benefiting Democrats and were instigated by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom as a response to redistricting by Texas Republicans aimed to help their party. California voters approved a measure allowing the state’s mid-decade redistricting this past fall. At the Supreme Court on Wednesday, there were no noted dissents and no opinion. Exactly two months ago, the court also rejected a challenge to Texas’s mid-decade redistricting. Combined, the two orders — particularly the lack of any dissents on Wednesday — suggest the court is not going to weigh in on states’ efforts to change their maps for the midterms. This is so because the court, in essence, has decided these are efforts to advance partisan advantage and, hence, are nonjusticiable — despite the fact that both challenges to the new maps argued that the new maps included racial gerrymanders.