A North Carolina court overrules itself in a case tied to a disputed election theory
What do you when the highest State Court in your land hands down a judgement that the electoral maps are grossly gerrymandered and efforts to disallow voting by ex-felons who has completed their sentences are unconstitutional and certain Voter ID laws are racist?
You spend millions to change the composition of the elected Court in your favour and then bring exactly the same case with no material difference before the same Court and arrange a rehearing.
And that partisan Court then reverses it’s earlier judgment and says the gerry mandering et all is perfectly legal and the Court has no jurisdiction to overturn a gerrymandered map prepared by the legislature.
This is exactly what has transpired this week in North Carolina instigated by the North Carolina GOP.
The consequences of this ruling is devastating for free and fair elections in general – any legislature in essence can then structure electoral maps as they wish without any judicial intervention to uphold electoral fairness.