Ron DeSantis greets residents at a Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. What was not so good was the vague and unspecified leeway Roberts’ opinion and Kavanaugh’s concurrence claimed for themselves. Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberals on the court to reject the North Carolina Republican legislators’ argument that their interpretation of the Constitution’s elections clause gives legislatures ultimate power in deciding federal elections laws, in this case a gerrymander of congressional districts. On the surface, the court’s rejection of the most extreme version of the independent state legislature theory was a great relief. Let’s look at one decision in particular, Moore v. He told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace that it would be a “mistake” to expand the court, because "I think if we start the process of trying to expand the court, we're going to politicize it maybe forever in a way that is not healthy.” Looking at the whole of the last couple of years with this court, what is clearly politicized and unhealthy for democracy is the court’s conservative majority. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse decades of precedent upholding affirmative action in higher education, President Joe Biden was pressed on reforming the court. Looks like there's plenty of room to expand.įollowing the U.S.
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