USSC will hear a case next year that, if they concur with the state's argument, could destroy our country.

[JimH52]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

 

[White 6]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

Well, hearing these cases is their job and reason to exist. Every year they hear cases that can "destroy" our country. Some say they heard several this term, according to the ones they ruled against. The sun is still shining in TN.

 

[JimH52]

Well, hearing these cases is their job and reason to exist. Every year they hear cases that can "destroy" our country. Some say they heard several this term, according to the ones they ruled against. The sun is still shining in TN.

So....if Dem controlled legislatures decide to ignore the people's vote and hand elections to Dem candidates, that would be okay with you? That is exactly what the nutcases in NC are trying to accomplish. Only they want repub controlled legislatures to ignore the voters and send their candidates, even if they lose the vote, to office. That is called an Autocracy.

 

[theHawk]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

Well Roe v Wade was overturned, so isn’t the country already doomed? That’s what the left says.

 

[jbrownson0831]

So....if Dem controlled legislatures decide to ignore the people's vote and hand elections to Dem candidates, that would be okay with you? That is exactly what the nutcases in NC are trying to accomplish. Only they want repub controlled legislatures to ignore the voters and send their candidates, even if they lose the vote, to office. That is called an Autocracy.

So.....your suggestion is not to have the Supreme Court hear cases you don't like? I am willing to let them hear them all and will live with their decision....without burning anything down or shooting anyone. You??

 

[HenryBHough]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

Best you rush out and buy some pearls to clutch right away. Xidenprices are already above the atmosphere and rising.

 

[Winston]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

The gerrymandering in North Carolina is the "gold standard" for the Republican party. And the reality is it has been going on for a generation. The North Carolina Republican party made no bones about it. One of the Republican house members stated, "We constructed the districts to deliver 10 of 14 House seats because we couldn't figure out a way to deliver 14."

North Carolina Republicans really outdid themselves in 2012. In addition to the 12th district, there’s the 4th, which covers Raleigh and Burlington and snakes a narrow tentacle all the way south to pick up parts of Fayetteville. And then there’s the 1st District, which covers a sprawling arbitrarily shaped region in the northeastern part of the state.

Overall, the North Carolina GOP’s efforts paid off handsomely. Based on their statewide vote share you’d expect North Carolina Democrats to hold about seven seats. But they won only four. This is because an outsized share of the state’s Democratic voters were shunted off into the three highly-gerrymandered districts above.

North Carolina: "Most gerrymandered state" | The Pulse

No surprise to people who live here, but North Carolina (in a tie with Maryland) was named the nation’s “most gerrymandered state” by the Washington Post’s Wonkblog today. As writer Christopher Ingraham puts it: North Carolina Republicans really outdid themselves in 2012. In addition to the 12th...

pulse.ncpolicywatch.org

I live in the tenth district, which stretches all the way to Asheville, more than 70 miles away in order to dilute the Democrat voting block in Asheville with my numbnut redneck ass Republican neighbors.

The reality is a bunch of clowns, because let's just be honest, state legislature members are mostly a bunch of clowns, lawyers that can't practice law or teachers that can't teach, are controlling huge swaths of the population by essentially fencing them in and walling them off. In other words, treated like chattel. The end results are easily visible. You get representatives like Matthew Cawthorn and Ted Budd, who may very well make it to the Senate. A flippin gun store owner in a town of less than 3,000--how can he possibly qualify to be a representative let alone a senator except for the fact that he kissed the almighty Trump ring, which evidently turns snakes into princes.

 

[theHawk]

So let me guess, we need to abolish the Supreme Court in order to “save democracy”?

 

[White 6]

So....if Dem controlled legislatures decide to ignore the people's vote and hand elections to Dem candidates, that would be okay with you? That is exactly what the nutcases in NC are trying to accomplish. Only they want repub controlled legislatures to ignore the voters and send their candidates, even if they lose the vote, to office. That is called an Autocracy.

Perfectly willing for them to hear the case. Not likely you will put the Supreme Court out of business under our present constitution, and I am unwilling to chuck the constitution. I don't like or dislike every decision that come down the pike, but recognize their position to hear and make opinion.

 

[night_son]

This could allow partisan state legislatures to ignore the voters and install their hand selected candidates...or could allow the state legislatures to ignore the voters and send their own electors to Congress in presidential elections. At least three of judges have indicated that are interested in this case. That is scary.

If Chicken Little tells you the sky is falling, he ain't lying. Better start carrying an umbrella.

America is two shakes of a donkey's tail away from an ultra-nationalistic dictatorship and most sane Americans would agree: we can't wait for it. On the day said authoritarian right-wing empire comes to power, democrats will have only themselves to blame because of the following few democratic party oopsie-insanities.

-Two years (and counting) of COVID medical tyranny
-Proselytization of homosexual religion throughout public schools
-Forced transgender conversion of school children
-Transgender mutilation of children
-The murder of up to 100 million unborn American children
-Militarization of our police forces at every governmental level
-Attempted revisionism of America's history at every era
-Anti-patriotism
-Deceiving Americans into a decade long race war
-Unbearable food, fuel and basic needs prices in the name of climate change religion
-And many more . . .

If your beloved and hallowed democratic party fails to immediately move to the political right, a tyrannical ultra patriotic authoritarian government will come to power. This movement has already begun in the Supreme Court. Soon it will spread to all facets of American government at every level and in the end, to all branches of our military. And then it will be game over . . .

 

[Pellinore]

There are a lot of "potentiallys" in there, but yeah, giving federal election power to state legislatures without oversight from state judges or (mind-bogglingly) state Constitutions would be super-confusing, but also open the door to a lot of shenanigans. This is the kind of thing that should be opposed by everyone regardless of party, for the health of the democracy.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot of that going around right now.

 

[JimH52]

There are a lot of "potentiallys" in there, but yeah, giving federal election power to state legislatures without oversight from state judges or (mind-bogglingly) state Constitutions would be super-confusing, but also open the door to a lot of shenanigans. This is the kind of thing that should be opposed by everyone regardless of party, for the health of the democracy.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot of that going around right now.

All these laws and election efforts were precipitated by the Fat Guy with the Big Lie.