Supreme Court Delivers Massive 6-3 Ruling on Case That Could Upend 2024 Election

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has just come out of the Supreme Court that will affect not only the 2024 presidential

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Now, the Supreme Court took on a case that was about North Carolina election maps on

its surface. So let's not get into the minutiae of the case, but essentially the liberal-held Supreme

Court of the state of North Carolina had decided that the state maps had to be redrawn that

the legislator had produced. When the state Supreme Court switched over to Republican control, they then ruled that

they didn't have to do that, and the legislator did not have to do that

Bring it to the Supreme Court. Several of the conservative justices, including Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas, were in

the dissent on this, and they said that, you know, this is a moot case

It's already been decided by the state. We don't have to take this on. But the liberal justices, joined by conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts, had

the winning decision in the case. Now, what they ruled is that state Supreme Courts do have a say over what state legislatures

do in regards to elections. Now, my estimation, this seems to go against the elections clause in the Constitution

which does say that state legislators are the ultimate arbiter of election disputes

in their states. This decision, however, takes a different tack. It says that that's not what the election clause says, and that state Supreme Courts

have some reasonable ability to get involved with the state's decisions, although not unlimited

So this does make kind of a mess of things, actually, because if you think back to the

2020 presidential election, you had courts without the legislatures going ahead and changing

rules, allowing mail-in voting when they didn't usually allow mail-in voting for certain people

allowing more early voting, just totally changing the rules because of the pandemic

That was in the case of an emergency. You still can't do that according to the Constitution, but these justices just today have decided differently

They said, you can do that. That's the thing. It's going to affect things down the road

So if there's a problem with, let's say, electors, or there's a dispute about who won the state

this would normally be the job for the state legislature. Apparently, now this becomes a job where the courts can get involved and go against the

legislature, who is supposed to be the ultimate arbiter of these matters

So it makes for a total mess, in my opinion, and I believe, although I'm not a constitutional

scholar like the people in the Supreme Court, I believe this is a misreading of the elections

clause in the Constitution, certainly a misapplying of the law. The Constitution is pretty clear, actually, about who the ultimate decider of election

matters is per state. It's not even really iffy. It's there. You can see it

It's right there. So I'm really surprised by this decision, but it's in line with a few other decisions

that have gone against conservatives at the court recently, so it may be something we

have to get used to, and you can't win them all. Folks, again, I'm Carmine Sabia

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