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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

North Carolina's Gerrymander Goes to the Supreme Court

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Justices take up Moore v. Harper, a case that asks who gets to draw North Carolina's new House districts: the Legislature or state judges? The implications of that question for 2024 probably aren't what you've heard, and New York's failed gerrymander explains why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:27.0

Supreme Court here is a case on political gerrymandering from North Carolina.

0:33.0

But what's at stake into the justices have a clear path forward?

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Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:40.0

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley.

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Welcome and happy Thursday to you both.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a case called More V Harper.

0:51.0

And it involves the Constitution's elections clause and could have broad implications

0:56.0

across the United States.

0:58.0

The background of the case is that after the 2020 census, the North Carolina legislature passed a new House redistricting map.

1:06.0

And it was favorable to Republicans giving them an advantage in 10 of the state's 14 House districts.

1:13.0

But that map was struck down by the North Carolina Supreme Court and the judiciary then drew its own map as a replacement.

1:20.0

So, Kim, maybe that's the place to start. Can you give us a sense of what the North Carolina Supreme Court did that is so controversial in the first place?

1:28.0

Yeah, and let me just give a little background here because I think it's important.

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State courts and state legislatures and these redistricting maps have become much more political in recent years.

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And part because the former Attorney General Eric Holder, Barack Obama's Attorney General, when he left office, he was very concerned about Republican Donald Trump.

1:49.0

And the Republican dominance down ballot and at the state level.

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In particular, there sway over legislatures and state Supreme Court.

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So, he began this whole new project to try to both flip state legislatures in Democrats favors, but also to get more Democratic judges appointed at state Supreme Court level.

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