Get your gerrymandering in early
Republican Supreme Court rules gerrymandering is totes legal.
Barely a year after Democratic justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court said new maps of the state’s legislative and congressional districts were partisan gerrymanders that violated the State Constitution, a newly elected Republican majority on the court reversed course on Friday and said the court had no authority to overturn those maps.
The practical effect is to enable the Republican-controlled State Legislature to scrap the court-ordered State Senate and congressional district. boundaries that were used in elections last November, and draw new maps skewed in their favor for elections in 2024.
Can legislatures fix elections in advance? Sure sure sure, no problem. (Unless the legislature happens to be majority The Wrong Party.)
This was one of the main issues driving the recent State Supreme Court Election in WIsconsin. There the Assembly and Congressional districts are badly gerrymandered and have been since before Walker was the governor. The other issue that will come before the Court will be an old 19th century abortion law that was never nullified by Roe V Wade and could now be enforced if the Governor directed it to be.