WASHINGTON — Democrats took an immediate victory lap Tuesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an election theory from North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders that would have allowed them to give their party an upper hand in future elections.
North Carolina Republicans had argued that state courts shouldn’t be allowed to meddle in the rules legislators passed regarding elections for federal office. Had the justices upheld that legal theory, the U.S. would have lost a set of checks and balances on the laws state legislators passed in regards to federal elections.
Because of this, Moore v. Harper became a high-stakes, controversial case watched nationwide.
