Republicans won control of the North Carolina Supreme Court in November and have granted a rehearing that could potentially reverse the judgement of the previous Democratic majority in redistricting cases. If this happens in an expedited manner, it could very well moot Moore v Harper and put to rest the whole Independent State Legislature Theory for the time being.
Moore v Harper was argued on December 7, but likely won’t be decided until near the end of the term in late June. But if the North Carolina Supreme Court reverses itself before then, the United States Supreme Court will have no active “case or controversy” on which to decide Moore v Harper.
The North Carolina Supreme Court should move as fast as possible to decide this case and defuse the potential bomb of Moore v Harper.
seeing as how the court refused to actually even look at a single case in the last election and sidestepped all of them on technicalities, some of them complete BS, I really have no problem removing the courts from the job they don’t want and refused to do. Let election greivances go to the legislatures to decide.
I remember this case being discussed earlier, probably in this forum. It was hypocritical for the dissenting judge (re the rehearing) to complain about the politicization of the rehearing when the original case was strictly along party lines and it was pretty obvious was rushed to get a decision before the party dominance changed. It seemed obvious at the time the only result would be this rehearing.
I would guess the SC would not hear a case that was obviously going to become moot.
