If you like the decisions the U.S. Supreme Court handed down this term, you’re going to be enraptured by what comes next. For the rest of us, though, the worst could be yet to come.
Worse than forced birth for rape victims and obscene new curbs, not on pollution, but on the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants?
Here’s why it could be: In agreeing to review Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court is taking up a case that could give state legislatures sole authority over the conduct of federal elections. If that happens, even the most extreme partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression could be deemed just dandy by state lawmakers, no matter what a state’s constitution or supreme court says.
