“Case of the Century” Underway At Supreme Court- The Highly Anticipated Election Lawsuit Could Alter The 2024 Election

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Finally! The Supreme Court is stepping in to keep our elections secure.

They may have failed us during the 2020 election when Joe Biden and his controllers cheated their way into the White House, but at least they’re doing something right now.

This case, out of North Carolina, could drastically change what we see happen in the 2024 presidential race.

“The second major Supreme Court case, Moore v. Harper, originated in North Carolina. There, the state Supreme Court tossed out the map drawn by Republicans as an illegal partisan gerrymander, with a court-drawn map eventually being used in 2022.

“Republican legislators sought to have the nation’s highest court negate the state court’s map, advancing a once-fringe legal theory called the “independent state legislature” doctrine that argues that state courts have little to no role in checking state legislatures’ power to set the rules around federal elections,” Politico reported.

“The Supreme Court seems unlikely to adopt the most muscular version of the theory. But depending on where the justices land, it could reopen the redistricting process both in the Tarheel State and elsewhere where state courts waded into the mapmaking process. 

“The 2022 elections in a handful of states will also likely have an impact on congressional lines in 2023. Republican-aligned justices won a majority on the North Carolina state Supreme Court — making the court much more likely in the future to back the party’s legislatively drawn lines,” the report added.

It seems risky, and honestly- terrifying that the Supreme Court would step in and throw the gavel down on the state’s processes for drawing district lines. We certainly don’t want any more federal authority flexing its muscles in our hometowns. But we also can’t have liberal courts making a mockery of our election process.

“Several of the justices appeared skeptical two weeks ago about a state court’s decision to strike down Republican-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina, but it seemed unlikely a majority would embrace a broad theory that could upend election law nationwide,” NBC News reported.

“Beyond redistricting the case also has the potential to change how North Carolina and the 49 other states handle everything from early voting and mail-in ballots rules to voter ID, recounts, post-election audits, and anything else that could possibly affect an election,” the outlet added.

“In recent years under Republican leadership at the General Assembly — and a Democratic majority at the N.C. Supreme Court — a number of political lawsuits have led to state-level cases with huge implications for how elections are conducted,” the Herald Sun reported.

“Those include gerrymandering cases decided in 2019 and 2022 as well as lawsuits over lawmakers’ ability to amend the constitution to require voter ID and a ban on ex-felons voting after they leave prison — all of which have ended in rulings against the legislature.

“More cases are pending, including another one over voter ID and one advancing a state-level version of the same legal theory that’s about to be heard at the U.S. Supreme Court. “

The Herald Soon also reported this:

“Moore v. Harper is predicated on who has the constitutional authority to set election policy – seven state Supreme Court justices or 170 state legislators,” Lauren Horsch, a spokeswoman for Berger, said in an email.

“The U.S. Constitution’s Elections Clause is clear that it’s the state legislatures, but recently state courts have taken it upon themselves to set election policy. In North Carolina, we have a state Supreme Court that has become a legislative body.”

Per usual, the democrats are out in full-swing claiming a case like this is all doom and gloom. While Republicans may not like the idea either, one thing is for certain- this may be the case of the century.