With Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper, the reckless, anti-democratic arrogance of North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders finally hit a wall.
The court essentially told the North Carolina lawmakers that they either don’t understand democracy or don’t support it.
The case centered on the lawmakers’ claim that under a fringe legal argument — the independent state legislature theory — the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures exclusive control over the conduct of elections and courts and other parts of government have no authority to rule on laws that set federal election districts.
