Can Courts End Partisan Gerrymandering?
We the People
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šļø 23 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Last week the North Carolina Supreme Court agreed to rehear a case that struck down the state's redistricting maps under the state constitution. |
| 0:08.0 | The outcome of the decision could affect another case already in front of the US Supreme Court more versus Harper. |
| 0:14.1 | That's the challenge to a decision striking down North Carolina's redistricting maps that |
| 0:18.3 | involves the independent state legislature doctrine. |
| 0:21.8 | Why did the North Carolina Supreme Court strike down the maps in the first place and why is it |
| 0:25.4 | revisiting that decision now? |
| 0:27.5 | Will the U.S. Supreme Court still decide the Moore case and rule on the independent state |
| 0:31.5 | legislature doctrine? |
| 0:33.7 | And what standards should be used to decide whether redistricting maps are politically |
| 0:38.6 | gerrymandered? |
| 0:39.6 | Hello friends, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution |
| 0:46.1 | Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:50.3 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 0:59.0 | To help us understand the latest developments in these important gerrymandering cases. |
| 1:04.0 | We're joined by two of America's leading election scholars. |
| 1:08.0 | Meisha Zaitlin is a partner at the law firm Trotman Pepper. |
| 1:12.0 | He argued in one the 2018 partisan gerrymandering case, |
| 1:15.8 | Gill versus Whitford, before the US Supreme Court. |
| 1:18.4 | And he filed a friend of the court brief |
| 1:20.5 | in Moore versus Harper, as well as another major gerrymandering case, |
| 1:24.5 | Rucho versus Common Cause. |
| 1:26.5 | Meecha, it's wonderful to welcome you to We The People. |
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