Supreme Court appeals to 'ordinary bounds' that no longer exist
By Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief June 28, 2023 04:54 PMThe Supreme Court , which is often denounced as the handmaiden of Republicans and conservatives, gave the Democratic Party and its legal allies a big victory this week.
Justices ruled 6-3 in Moore v. Harper that state courts may overrule state legislatures on congressional redistricting, even though the U.S. Constitution mandates legislatures to control the “times, places, and manner” of federal elections.
Many conservatives are up in arms, partly on constitutional principle but also, clearly, because the Supreme Court has cemented in place a congressional map North Carolina’s Democrat-dominated high court drew up, and which produced three fewer Republican seats in the 2020 election than were expected with a GOP map the judges swept aside.
The court’s Democratic majority claimed the right to intervene, saying the GOP gerrymander broke constitutional guarantees of free elections, equal protection, and other good things.
Gerrymandering has an ignoble history in America, which reflects the fact that political tribes have long been willing to sacrifice basic fairness to make one person’s vote weigh more than another. Both parties take dishonorable advantage of temporary ascendancy to undermine the voting strength of the other side’s supporters. So no one could argue that the Republican map at issue in Moore was impeccable.
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