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Supreme Court takes up new bombshell elections case

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Posted By: Imright, 6/30/2022 7:07:38 PM

The United States Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it will consider a case that could dramatically change how federal elections are conducted by reviewing the “independent state legislature” theory, which would give state legislatures the authority to set rules for federal elections even if those rules violated state constitutions or helped facilitate partisan gerrymandering. (Tweet) The case in question is Moore v. Harper, in which the North Carolina GOP argued that the state legislature could enact voting laws and write district maps free from the courts scrutiny.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: pros7767 6/30/2022 9:05:54 PM (No. 1202476)
The question is...will SCOTUS betray us again???
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Reply 2 - Posted by: swarfer 7/1/2022 1:34:15 PM (No. 1203217)
Essentially, do state legislatures have absolute authority setting election rules and state courts cannot intervene regardless of any state law on the books? Very interesting test case, this affects both parties equally, so the overall effect, if legislative supremacy is decided, is unclear. However, it does mean that the party that controls the legislature has an built in advantage advantage redistricting.
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