SCOTUS Won't Rehear Challenge to Ga. PSC Election Method

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a bid to rehear a Voting Rights Act case that sought to overturn a Georgia statute mandating statewide election of members of its Public Service Commission (see 2407190036). A Monday text entry in case 23-1060 said SCOTUS denied the petition from former Atlanta NAACP chapter President Richard Rose and a group of Black voters to reconsider its June decision not to grant a petition for certiorari to review the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling (see 2406240041). The circuit court in July denied petitioners' request for an en banc rehearing of its earlier ruling in favor of statewide election of the PSC members, who represent five separate districts (see 2407100050). Bryan Sells, the petitioners' attorney, didn't comment.