US Supreme Court seems prepared to rule that North Carolina Republicans can intervene to enforce a voter ID law passed in 2018 that they argue the state’s Democratic attorney general isn’t adequately defending.
in court that they believe the state’s Democratic attorney general isn’t fighting hard enough to defend.
Lower federal courts said the attorney general is doing an adequate job of defending the law, so the speaker of the state House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the state Senate asked the Supreme Court to let them intervene in the case. State law explicitly gives them the authority to defend the laws that they pass, Thompson said.“What’s the conflict?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked. “The attorney general says the law is constitutional.
“There’s a strong federal interest in having states speak in court with a single voice,” she said, rather than having “different state agencies duke it out in federal court.” Chief Justice John Roberts told Theodore, “It does seem a little unfair to me that you want to pick your opponents in court. What are you afraid of?”
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