North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Cripple Voting Rights in Every State
Source: Slate via MSN
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.
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Will Roberts and gang shut this down too?
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Republicans and their voters are killing ours piece by piece, with the help of some courts. Justice Jackson will be able to explain to the current justices just how damaging their gutting of the Voting Rights Act has been since most of them have lived their whole lives in privileged bubbles totally divorced from reality.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)I think the filthy rich are bribing the Supremes much like they are bribing Clarance through his wife.
We have an oligarchy now and they control us all. Votes or no votes, the Oligarchs are going to get what they want. They own us.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)and little understood by most Americans. Lets hope the court refuses to hear it.
J_William_Ryan
(1,753 posts)No, not with a Supreme Court dominated by hard-core, partisan rightwing ideologues.
ificandream
(9,373 posts)Voting rights is one. There's no way they can change voting rights and make it stick permanently. I think even this Supreme Court (outside of Clarence Thomas) is smart enough not to.
GB_RN
(2,356 posts)After getting Roberts, et al, to kill our ability to seek redress via federal courts, and the ruling expressly stated that it was up to state courts (commissions, etc) to fix gerrymandering, and the NCSC has killed the GOP dominated legislatures political gerrymandering, they want the SCOTUS to go back and say state courts cant kill political gerrymandering? Yeah, NO!
The no-talent, hypocritical, thieving, lying, assclowns who run our legislature here in NC can go fuck themselves, eat shit and die.
MissMillie
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