"I always counsel against assuming (click here) that any one court decision is going to dramatically change the landscape. But this case is different," says Marc Elias on the Supreme Court taking up a case on state legislatures' authority over elections.
November 18, 2021
Lawsuit filed on behalf of plaintiffs from Harper v. Lewis (click here) challenging the state’s new congressional and legislative maps drawn with 2020 census data. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the maps for being partisan gerrymanders that violate the North Carolina Constitution. In a 4-3 decision, the court concluded that partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable and any map “that diminishes or dilutes a voter’s opportunity to aggregate with likeminded voters to elect a governing majority…infringes upon that voter’s fundamental right to vote,” explicitly rejecting the lower court and Republican defendants’ notion that partisan gerrymandering is allowed under the state constitution. The trial court then adopted remedial plans: the state House and Senate remedial maps passed by the General Assembly and a congressional map drawn by court-appointed special masters. The congressional map will only be in place for the 2022 elections...
By Zachery B. Wolf
The US Supreme Court is on a tear remaking the way Americans live. (click here)
It cut back states' abilities to regulate the carrying of guns.
It gave states the power to outlaw abortion.
It undercut the power of the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies to regulate polluters.
Next up could be a complete re-imagining of American democracy, where, if a legal theory based on the word "legislature" is adopted by the Supreme Court, state lawmakers could, in theory, have new power to ignore voters and pick presidents.
The conservative-majority court has agreed to hear a North Carolina case that pits the state's GOP-controlled legislature against state courts that threw out congressional maps they said were gerrymandered....
The case will end democracy in the USA where every vote is supposed to matter. This is a regressive court that rather have George Washington as King than a democracy that Franklin stated, "If you can keep it."
The Supreme Court is corrupt and they are pushing the elimination of individual rights as a loyalty to the Federalist Society.
The opinions above are not alone. This estimate is showing up in more than one location. It is a legitimate concern.
The Supreme Court (click here) has agreed to hear a case in its fall term that has the potential to make partisan gerrymandering an unstoppable political force and gut voting rights protections. That may be a best-case scenario....
