“It’s not an overstatement to say that the very health of democracy in North Carolina is at stake when you are talking about voting rights and fair maps,” Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, said in an interview. The Supreme Court also could reverse a trial court decision that declared a 2018 voter ID law unconstitutional, or it could direct an examination based on different standards. While Republicans still control the state House and Senate, the congressional delegation is now 7-7 after two additional Democratic wins in November. Favorable new opinions for Republicans could let them redraw legislative and congressional maps for 2024 and beyond in the closely divided state with more favorable partisan tilts.
The justices have no deadlines by which they must rule.
Yellen declares bank system sound, as new rescues ordered The court’s majority flipped to Republicans in January after Trey Allen and Richard Dietz won November associate justice elections. 16 decision, Democrats still held four seats on the court. Last month, the court’s new 5-2 Republican majority agreed to take a second look at a pair of 4-3 party-line rulings that went against GOP legislators. The justices’ decision to rehear arguments has fanned accusations that recent decisions on politically charged topics before the state’s highest court have been based upon which party has held the majority. The rehearings Tuesday and Wednesday on cases already decided are exceedingly rare for the court - granted just two other times in the past 30 years, according to one justice. (AP) - The North Carolina Supreme Court is revisiting this week whether a previous combination of justices got it wrong three months ago when declaring that the legislature produced illegal district lines tainted by excess partisanship and a photo voter identification law infected with racial bias.
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