North Carolina is reconsidering a case at the core of Moore v. Harper, potentially upending a controversial Supreme Court case. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
want the justices to give state legislatures unfettered control over federal elections. The case was argued in December and we’ve been waiting on a decision.
But the North Carolina majority’s move apparently caught the Supreme Court’s attention. On Thursday, the justiceson the impact of the state court granting rehearing. After the Supreme Court receives that briefing, due March 20, we’ll await the justices' next move, including potentially dismissing the case from their docket.
To be clear, it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if the Supreme Court doesn’t decide a case that could throw our elections into greater chaos. However, the partisan machinations in North Carolina that are prompting the possible mooting of the case at the high court are more concerning. If the Supreme Court doesn’t decide the issue, then that doesn’t mean it’s going away, just that it could be in the North Carolina court’s hands — at least for now.
And given the state court’s brazen step of deciding to reconsider the matter right after a change in its political makeup, people concerned with democracy should be just as wary of where voting rights are headed.
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