Democrats are cheering for the conservative majority Supreme Court after a Tuesday ruling in Moore v. Harper, saying the rejection of the so-called independent state legislature theory marked a win for voting rights.
“Today, the Supreme Court soundly rejected a fringe, far-right assault on a sacred pillar of American Democracy: the right to vote," Rep. Nancy Pelosi said in a statement."With its ruling in Moore v. Harper, the Court refused to embrace the MAGA Republicans’ radical independent state legislature theory, while reaffirming our Founders’ vision of checks and balances in conducting our elections.
The celebration among Democrats follows a Tuesday morning ruling in Moore v. Harper that held state courts do have the right to police state election laws, a rejection of the ISL theory. Thomas wrote that the holding by the majority would have"the effect of investing potentially large swaths of state constitutional law with the character of a federal question not amenable to meaningful or principled adjudication by federal courts," also noting that the decision should be"moot" because the lower court, the North Carolina Supreme Court, vacated the ruling that inspired the petition to the highest court.
The Moore opinion comes just weeks after the Supreme Court held that Alabama discriminated against black voters during its redistricting process last year when it failed to create a second majority-black district, another opinion that could benefit Democrats in the 2024 elections. Celebration of the high court by Democrats comes as the party has in recent months cast a skeptical view of the credibility among the six Republican-appointed justices, namely over their decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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