Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-elections-state-legislatures-a620db8c1ad30fc34b3ab0c81b29b87c

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law.

The justices by a 6-3 vote rejected the broadest view of a case that could have transformed elections for Congress and president.

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assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

A surprise to be sure, but a super welcome one.

Alito and Thomas can pretty much just phone it in at this point. Whatever the worst position is, throw them there, and 95% of the time it'll be how they would've voted.

5200@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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DirkMcCallahan@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

Thank goodness!

patachu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Interestingly, it was also the Roberts/Barrett/Kavanaugh faction (+Gorsuch) that sided with the liberals in the Indian Child Welfare Act case. So there's definitely a subset of the conservative justices that you can talk some sense into, if the argument is convincing enough.