Is a gerrymandered legislature a legitimate government body?

[ck4829]

Fresh off a high-profile case over gerrymandering, the North Carolina Supreme Court now has a related and similarly controversial issue to decide: whether actions taken by a gerrymandered legislature are even legitimate.

Oral arguments are scheduled Monday in the case. Depending on how they go, the case could end with the court removing two new amendments from the North Carolina Constitution, despite voters having approved them in 2018.

Because of the slow pace of the courts, this case isn’t about the new district maps — which the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional this month. Instead, it’s about maps that have long since been overturned, several gerrymandering lawsuits ago.

Yet while the maps in question were ruled unconstitutional years ago, their effects linger on, this lawsuit claims, in the form of the two controversial amendments to the state constitution.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gerrymandered-legislature-illegitimate-now-nc-100000459.html

The question that we all need to ask.

[dsc]

1. this is hugely important

one is voter ID and the other is a cap on income taxes. Both are illegitimate and can never be removed since Democrats, even with gerrymandered maps in their favor could never get that kind of supermajority.

[PoliticAverse]

2. If true then all actions by any illegimate legislatures should have to be undone.

Including all laws and budgets passed. You can't just pick and choose.

[thatdemguy]

3. In Maryland

That would tear the state apart, as we are so gerrymandered. They just redid the map and it changed districts to do things like cross the chesapeak bay. There are currently several lawsuits against it.

Personally I am for equality of vote, not lets change the map so some votes count less than others.

[Zeitghost]

4. I sure hope so

Or we're in a bit of trouble here in CA where we have cracked and packed the right into a handful of districts.