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Rick Hasen
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My new one @Slate on the NC general assembly's efforts to restore its partisan gerrymander of congressional maps. If the conservative Supreme Court applies the law fairly, North Carolinas argument should be dead in the water. Sadly, that's a big if.
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North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Cripple Voting Rights in Every State
North Carolina Republicans dropped a bombshell on Friday afternoon.
5:38 PM · Feb 25, 2022
Rick Hasen
@rickhasen
My new one @Slate on the NC general assembly's efforts to restore its partisan gerrymander of congressional maps. If the conservative Supreme Court applies the law fairly, North Carolinas argument should be dead in the water. Sadly, that's a big if.
slate.com
North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Cripple Voting Rights in Every State
North Carolina Republicans dropped a bombshell on Friday afternoon.
5:38 PM · Feb 25, 2022
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/north-carolina-republicans-scotus-gerrymandeering-assault.html
In a late Friday afternoon filing as war raged in Ukraine and as President Joe Biden announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans dropped their own bombshell: a legal filing in the Supreme Court that if successful would not only restore the state legislatures ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering and perhaps tip control of Congress, but would radically alter the power of state courts to rein in state legislatures that violate voting rights in federal elections. There are strong arguments Republicans should lose this case, but dont count them out before a polarized and politicized Supreme Court.
A few years ago, in a case called Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S. Supreme Court shut the federal courthouse door to partisan gerrymandering claimsclaims that political parties drawing maps for electing members of Congress or state legislative bodies manipulated those maps purely for partisan gain. The Rucho court majority opinion by Chief Justice Roberts explained that there were other paths for reining in this conduct, including Congress passing legislation (as the Freedom to Vote Act would have done), the creation of independent commissions, and state courts. Indeed, the court noted: Provisions in state statutes and state constitutions can provide standards and guidance for state courts to apply in policing nefarious redistricting practices.
And thats exactly what happened in North Carolina. The state Supreme Court recently held that the North Carolina Republican-controlled legislatures gerrymandering of Congressional and other districts was a partisan gerrymander grossly favoring Republicans violating the state constitutions provisions guaranteeing free elections. This ruling was going to lead to a much fairer map in a state that is mostly evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
Now the Republican-dominated general assembly has struck back raising whats come to be known as the independent state legislature theory. This move was something I feared would happen weeks ago as Republicans were running out of options. Theyve argued in a new filing before the Supreme Court that the North Carolina Supreme Court does not have the power even in reliance on the state Constitution and despite Rucho to rein in partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts when done by a state legislature.
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North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Cripple Voting Rights in Every State (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Marthe48
(16,950 posts)1. a loose confederation of states?
It seems like that's what the mad dogs are gunning for. We are The United States of America. The people proposing this kind of action are melting the glue that makes us a country, trying to turn the best into the worst.