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(47,517 posts) Sat Jul 2, 2022, 01:46 PM Jul 2022

Even if SCOTUS side with the North Carolina map, it would take place after the midterms, right?

In taking up the case, the court could upend nearly every facet of the American electoral process, allowing state legislatures to set new rules, regulations and districts on federal elections with few checks against overreach, and potentially create a chaotic system with differing rules and voting eligibility for presidential elections.

Small comfort, I know..

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Even if SCOTUS side with the North Carolina map, it would take place after the midterms, right? (Original Post) question everything Jul 2022 OP

Yes. They don't even start hearing cases until October, Ocelot II Jul 2022 #1

Either those 100 million who saw no reason to vote in 2020 Eliot Rosewater Jul 2022 #2

Right... Princess Turandot Jul 2022 #3

Ocelot II

(115,799 posts)

1. Yes. They don't even start hearing cases until October,

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Sat Jul 2, 2022, 01:49 PM

Jul 2022

and the opinions don't start coming out until months later. The big ones usually aren't usually released until the end of the term.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)

2. Either those 100 million who saw no reason to vote in 2020

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Sat Jul 2, 2022, 01:50 PM

Jul 2022

wake up, grow up and vote, or ... ...

Even then, if the SC does what we know it will, I dont think voting will matter.

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)

3. Right...

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Sat Jul 2, 2022, 02:25 PM

Jul 2022

..They come back on the first Monday in October, which is just 4 weeks from Election Day. And two of those 4 weeks appear to be already 'booked' with 9 cases.

The election case (Moore v. Harper) is one of ~20 cases that hasn't been scheduled for argument yet. (Some of those will likely be combined, though.)

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