Experts warn Supreme Court supporting 'dangerous' GOP legal theory could destroy US democracy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Progressive campaigners in North Carolina warned Monday that a once-fringe conservative legal theory set to be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming months poses a serious threat to representative democracy.

The nation's highest court is expected to hear Moore v. Harper, a case involving North Carolina's racially rigged congressional map, sometime in December or early next year—meaning the outcome won't affect the 2022 midterm elections.

After North Carolina's GOP-controlled Legislature prejudicially redrew the state's congressional map to lock in 10 of its 14 districts for Republicans, the state Supreme Court struck down the map, which it described as an "egre­gious and inten­tional partisan gerry­mander... designed to enhance Repub­lican perform­ance."

Republican state lawmakers appealed, citing independent state legislature theory (ISLT), which the pro-democracy group Common Cause calls a "dangerous legal argument" increasingly popular in right-wing circles positing that federal elections can only be regulated by a state's lawmakers, not its judiciary—or even its constitution.

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[ZonkerHarris]

1. The Roberts Court will destroy democracy in this country. That's his job.

[RockRaven]

2. For the shitbags on SCOTUS, that isn't a warning but an endorsement.

[Hassler]

3. And after, ol' Balls and Strikes Roberts will plea for understanding for

The hardworking, honest SCOTUS

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Article I disagrees about federal elections ...

From Section 4:

The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.

Emphasis added.

[nakocal]

5. So if states can ignore their courts

does that mean the US Government can ignore the Supreme Court?