Did the three-judge panel in the Eastern District of Michigan abuse its discretion when it denied the Congressional and Legislative Defendants-Intervenors' Emergency Motion to Stay Trial pending resolution of two cases currently pending in this Court – Common Cause v. Rucho, 318 F. Supp. 3d 777, 799 (M.D.N.C. 2018), cert. granted, 138 S. Ct. 923 (2018) (No. 18-422) and Benisek v. Lamone, No. 1:13-cv-03233-JKB, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190292 (D. Md. Nov. 7, 2018), cert. granted, 202 L.Ed.2d 510 (U.S. Jan. 4, 2019) (No. 18726), where i) the issues before the Court in Rucho and Benisek are applicable, instructive and dispositive to the present case, ii) trial in the instant case is set to begin on February 5, 2019, and iii) this Court has ordered expedited consideration of threshold jurisdictional issues in Rucho and Benisek that are dispositive to the instant case.

Did the three-judge panel abuse its discretion in denying a stay of trial pending resolution of related cases