The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that could radically reshape the way federal elections are conducted.
Are the justices of the U.S Supreme Court ready to overturn the power of state courts to oversee congressional elections in the states?
The result was that in a state that is closely divided between Republican and Democratic voters, the new map produced an equally divided congressional delegation, seven seats for each party, instead of the lopsided 10 or 11 GOP seats that would have been produced by the Republican plan. "We know that at the end of the day, if this court rules in favor of the Republicans, that state legislatures across the country will have exclusive control over running federal elections in their states, which stands our system of checks and balances on its head," he said.
Katyal notes that the state court found that the Republican redistricting plan"was more malapportioned than 99.999% of the plans that could have been adopted." The Conference of Chief Justices brief, while nominally not taking sides, says that were the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt the position advocated by the North Carolina state legislature, the result would be"chaos," flooding federal courts with every state dispute imaginable. Having the federal courts take over disputes involving the election of federal representatives is simply"not fathomable," Hecht said in an interview with NPR.
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