SCOTUS case impact in North Carolina

The U.S. supreme court announced they would hear a case centered around North Carolina's maps of federal voting districts. The case, Moore vs. Harper, involved North Carolina’s House Speaker, Tim Moore.

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[viktoryanokovich]

Are you serious?!! The Republican map only made 3 democratic leaning districts, which was the most gerrymandered map in the country. The current map is perfect. It most accurately represents the state’s partisan divide.

[jtech]

What isn't understood by a majority of the public in this case is that it gives state legislatures the ability to choose the electors they send to the electoral college.

As it stands right now, in July of 2020, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states may punish or replace presidential electors if they cast their ballots for the candidate chosen by the voters of their state. What this case could do, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen, is say that the federal government has no ruling over all elections, including federal elections, at the state level. All it would take would be having a Republican state legislator enact a law that says that electors would not be punished for not following the will of the popular vote and then they could, in theory, rule that the electors sent to the electoral college is determined by the state legislature as opposed to the party that won the popular vote (as of right now, if Republicans win the popular vote, the state Republican party sends their electors to the college and vice versa).

If that happens, you could end up with a situation where gerrymandering is out of control (more than what it is), the results of the General Election popular vote do not matter (because the ruling party could just elect to send their own electors to the college and then have them vote for who they want) and have those electors not be punished for voting in a way that is different from the popular vote.

If that does occur, it would tighten the grasp that the current party has on the state government and make it harder for that party to lose power.

[lbhead]

Gerrymandering at the highest level, right in the open.

[glamahras]

Power trip! Cheating instead of working honestly. SMH

[Sephiroth]

Let's rig those elections boys, yeehaw!

smgdh

[northstar]

This was already decided two times in our nations history, both times were in the south. The first time, during the civil war, it was once and for all established that the federal government is higher than the state government. The second time was during the civil right movement when state and local governments were abused their powers to create “Jim Crow” laws to restrict minority voting. This argument has been completed before. The federal federal government clearly needs to be in charge, we are one nation and we need a sense of cohesion. States have no business changing voting systems or having any say in the matter. State governments exist to enact and chose policies to help people and their communities based on their ideals. The constitution doesn’t endow them the right to alter the cogs and wheels of our government mechanism.

[milkkshakkes]

Puerto Rocco and Hawaii deserve voting rights

[remotecontroll]

Stop gerrymandering, it is unethical.

[karlanielsen]

If you ever read the Constitution you would find that it gives the responsibility and authority to direct the way elections are conducted to the state legislators not the courts or anyone else. But that does not justify gerrymandering.

[churrothiev]

Oh we know how they'd decide, this SCOTUS

[gwenrichard]

They should do it by major highways, traffic flow and population density.

Unfortunately I don't trust the courts to be unbiased.

[thesinaclwon]

Well if we get rid of the electoral college then you don’t have to worry about gerrymandering because the popular vote will be the deciding factor in all elections…….AS IT SHOULD BE

[anyascelticcreations]

Why don't we just count all of the individual votes and elect whoever gets the most? And get rid of all those lines?

[tulw]

Since when SCOTUS is the ONLY GOVERNMENT of the land. Since when the Re-drawing of the map is decided by SCOTUS. Why the need to re-draw voting maps. Who started all this?

[tunatofu]

Kant said that the true measure of a just law is equal universal application. A just law can not favor burden or exclude any one person or group. Why do I know that and scotus doesnt?

[pamelaphillips]

Grumpy Grandpa here. Just tried to work it out together kids. There's got to be a middle ground. All of this fighting is good for no One. Just please try to get along.

[Bbenja]

Both parties suck. Why is that so hard to understand?

[jimjim]

Gerrymandering is why we need to use proportional representation for house elections but everyone knows the odds of that happening is one in ten trillion.

WOOO YEAH BABY I LOVE PARTISAN BICKERING AND UNFAIR REDISTRICRING

[jayh]

Tired of majority Supreme Court Republican's lies & bullying. vote Democratic

[ryanwaddell]

Yeah just need to move the field goal posts.🤣