was correct in its assessment, in february 2022 when this case was presented on the shadow docket, this court stayed the opinion and allowed the gerrymandered map to go into effect. that was the map that was in place during the midterm elections of november 2022. where it is widely believed that the force of gerrymandered really helped to alter the balance of power in the u.s. house of representatives. so this is a victory for the voting rights act, but it s cold comfort after this court allowed a gerrymandered map to be used in the midterm election depriving of a fair and just election. now the supreme court is saying alabama s rule makers went too far in designing the ma. however, we re looking ahead to 2024. there s some local election this is year. given this ruling, what do you see as the impact?
in 2021. in march of february 2022. the supreme court allowed this gerrymandered map to go into effect. to be used in the midterm elections. part of what we saw. the loss of the house to the republican party was due in part to those kinds of gerrymandered maps that we saw in effect the supreme court allowed to take place. we re going to see more of this. if this laws dismantled, we re gonna see it become more advanced, more celebrated it s gonna have a real effect on democracy. we are learning another thing this case does is indicate to a lot of people in every temper something that the supreme court does a lot of people don t like and they asked the president to do. he says yet to vote. you have to change these things in congress. not sure that s always the answer but it does seem that when it comes to some of these basic rights issues that may be something that american have to register. all of this is a part of really a decades-long strategy to first staff accordantly extremist
they still demand an election on a day where it s currently looked illegal to have a statewide special action in ohio. this where we get back to the sort of layers of anti-democratic that challenge, to the legality of this august 8th election is gonna go to this ohio supreme court. how are we doing in the ohio supreme court? unfortunately, we had a wisconsin moment a couple years ago. we got ourselves an independent court. then they changed those rules, and at a party labeled ballot, move those races up to the top, now they have themselves. there s another one. the court changed hands. it did, we had a moderate chief justice was a longtime republican, who are three democrats voted, against every gerrymandered map. in the meantime, they switched the rules of how we elect justices, i think they did north carolina, and then violated four year all the court orders. as i always say, it s if we saw this in another country, we would be saying, my god, you have no rule of law
rid of these august elections. it was a bipartisan victory. the author of the august election idea, himself said, this was a career-long goal of mine to get rid of august elections. months later, they can t repeal it. they still demand an election on a day where it s currently looked illegal to have a statewide special action in ohio. this where we get back to the sort of layers of anti-democratic that challenge, to the legality of this august 8th election is gonna go to this ohio supreme court. how are we doing in the ohio supreme court? unfortunately, we had a wisconsin moment a couple years ago. we got ourselves an independent court. then they changed those rules, and at a party labeled ballot, move those races up to the top, now they have themselves. there s another one. the court changed hands. it did, we had a moderate chief justice was a longtime republican, who are three democrats voted, against every gerrymandered map. in the meantime, they switched the rules
this redistricting case in north carolina. the gop lawmakers, they lost the case at the state level last year, appealed to the u.s. supreme court. they re also having this redo of the north carolina supreme court since then, that they now have a republican majority on the bench there. talk a little bit about this case, why you are so focused on, why you think it s so egregious. it s a pretty breathtaking thing what republicans are trying to do in north carolina. when they drew the map, the original maps, and try to re-district the state, both at the state legislative level, and with regard to the house representatives, they drew maps that the previous iteration of the north carolina supreme court said were unconstitutional, unconstitutional gerrymanders. and give you a sense of, that one of the people who was responsible for the drawing of that gerrymandered map said that, you know, what we re trying to do was to draw a map that had 11 to 3, 11 republicans, three democrats. north car