North Carolina's top court is giving the Supreme Court a run for its money on partisanship. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
Indeed, North Carolina’s top court hastwo recent decisions on voting by its previous 4-3 Democratic majority, after that math changed to 5-2 in Republicans’ favor in November. One of the decisions involves voter ID, and the other implicates the partisan gerrymandering issue at stake in Moore v. Harper. As election law expert, an intervening decision from the state court could make the U.S. Supreme Court case moot.
But whatever happens with Moore v. Harper, it’s worth dwelling on the radical step of the state court potentially upending recent rulings after a clear shift in its partisan makeup. That fact wasn’t lost on the North Carolina court’s new minority. On Friday, Democratic Justice Anita Earls, an action that the Republican majority matchedNot only does today’s display of raw partisanship call into question the impartiality of the courts, but it erodes the notion that the judicial branch has the institutional capacity to be a principled check on legislation that violates constitutional and human rights.
There are clear parallels with the nation’s high court, where, among other things, the new Republican supermajority
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