mcconnell and they kept from merrick garland, and a hearing on him. they ultimately rammed amy coney barrett, and the election going on, and the trump election was going on. so, the republicans pack the court. ordinarily, that wouldn t be calamitous, and that will be changes overtime in the future. the combination between two additional factors makes those changes unlikely. one is that the republicans are doing everything they can to, undermine the vote, and the supreme court about everything they can to enable that. cutting back on the voting rights act, recently taking a case, which should be chilling to all of us. it is a case out of north carolina, with the so-called independent state legislature doctrine, which, if the court
them and represent the parts of the country that have been least touched by all of the changes remaking america and the 21st century demographically, culturely and economically. you see them consistently ruling in a way that favors those interests over those of more diverse. the ending of the session could not have been more clear. they said the red states they gave the red states a authority to roll back a right that liberals prize. abortion rights. and blocked the blue states from impinging on rights the conservatives prize. another one which is concerning potentially could come from the court deciding that it will hear a case which could remove the ability of state courts to rule on unfair election rules. so called the independent state legislature doctrine. what s at stake there on that particular issue? this is staggering. that could truly i think introduce all sorts of
regulation, kate. just for example, two federal appeals court judges in the 5th circuit, which is in the south, recently said that the entire way the securities and exchange commission enforces the securities laws by suing malefactors is unconstitutional under a similar theory. i mean, having nothing to do with the environment, but the same idea that congress has to specifically authorize anything these administrative agencies do. so the goal is so they do nothing and don t sue corrupt this gets me this came out today. you raise this, jeffrey, and people need to pay attention. the justices are going to hear a case in the next term that could be hugely consequential to voting rights in north carolina. this is the independent state
help prevent some strategies that we saw donald trump and his inner circle, and the insurrectionists, used to try to overturn the election. more broadly, the responsibility of preventing this from happening is going to be incumbent on every elected official and every voter at every level of our government. what we are going to find increasingly necessary is to fight this fight in every secretary of state race that is happening in every state across the country, in every state legislator, because we are now seeing, as i am sure you know, the threat of the independent state legislature doctrine. the idea that states can unilaterally overturn the popular will of voters in their state. this is going to trickle down to every level of our government, and it is going to be incumbent on voters and officials of all kind, and law enforcement to, at every level
For 57 years, the Voting Rights Act has served as a remarkably effective bulwark against state-level attempts to restrict voting rights, particularly for Black and minority voters. But.