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North Carolina Supreme Court Enacts a Full-Scale Judicial Coup
By Bonchie | Aug 19, 2022 3:15 PM ET
North Carolina’s Supreme Court has made one of the most insane judicial decisions in the nation’s history, and that’s absolutely not hyperbole.
In what can only be described as a full-scale judicial coup, the Democrat-controlled body has ruled that the North Carolina General Assembly is illegitimate and can not enact amendments to the state’s constitution. Their reasoning? That the state’s legislature is “gerrymandered.”
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1560657623426314240
The amendments in question were to enshrine the state’s voter ID law and to put in place an income tax cap. Those are now in limbo after the Democrat supreme court decided it has supremacy over the duly-elected officials of North Carolina’s voters. It’s hard to put into words how crazy that is and how dangerous of a precedent it is. This is the same court that ruled earlier in the year that the general assembly can’t draw its own congressional map, representing one of the few GOP failures regarding redistricting in a red state.
Democrats currently hold a 4-3 majority on the court, a dynamic almost certain to change after November’s elections where the GOP is favored to take a 5-2 majority. So the good news here is that this insane judicial coup won’t last long. That it’s gotten to this point is still dangerous, though. What happens if courts all across the country start ruling oppositional legislatures are illegitimate?
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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/08/19/north-carolina-supreme-court-enacts-a-full-scale-judicial-coup-n614662
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:facepalm2:
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I presume the NC Constitution has provisions for the impeachment of judges. A bill of impeachment against all members of the majority in this decision would be in order.
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I presume the NC Constitution has provisions for the impeachment of judges. A bill of impeachment against all members of the majority in this decision would be in order.
Would the court rule that racially gerrymandered legislators had no authority to impeach judges?
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Would the court rule that racially gerrymandered legislators had no authority to impeach judges?
Interesting question.