The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to impose new limits on state courts reviewing certain election-related issues by ruling against Republicans in North Carolina fighting for a congressional district map that would heavily favor their candidates.
The justices ruled in a 6-3 vote that the North Carolina Supreme Court was acting within its authority in concluding that the map constituted a partisan gerrymander under the state Constitution.
In doing so, the court declined to embrace a hitherto obscure legal argument called the “independent state legislature” theory, which Republicans say limits the authority of state courts to strike down certain election laws enacted by state legislatures.
My vibes are saying that this is the calm before the storm. I fully expect the supreme court to gut LGBT rights in the name of religion in 303 Creative v. Elenis, make affirmative action illegal with SFAI v. Harvard and SFAI v. UNC, and block student loan forgiveness with Biden v. Nebraska
They might have sidestepped disaster with voting rights for now, but they’ve already done tons of damage to the environment with Sackett v. EPA and opened the door to further attacks on labor rights with Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters
TL;DR fuck the supreme court