North Carolina's Supreme Court makes a splash.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
North Carolina's Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the North Carolina Supreme Court sided with Republicans in three major rulings: upholding the state's voter ID law, throwing out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps, and overruling lower court decisions that felons have the right to vote. The ruling on the gerrymandered legislative maps will likely have a national impact, boosting Republicans' odds of growing their majority in the next House election.
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| 1:04.7 | be talking about North Carolina's Supreme Court and a few rulings that they dropped earlier this month and what it means for both |
| 1:14.5 | North Carolina and the country as a whole because they are going to have some national |
| 1:18.9 | implications. Before we jump in though, as always, we'll get started with some quick hits. |
| 1:35.3 | First up, President Biden plans to meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today to discuss the debt ceiling. The United States is roughly three weeks away from when the Treasury Secretary |
| 1:40.3 | said we risk defaulting. Number two, Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, |
| 1:45.6 | was arrested on corruption charges. Khan claims the arrest was politically motivated. |
| 1:51.5 | Number three, President Biden tapped near a tandon to replace Susan Rice as the White House's |
| 1:55.9 | domestic policy advisor. Number four, the Department of Transportation has proposed new rules to require |
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| 2:09.3 | said they shot down more than 30 drones after Russia launched airstrikes in Kyiv. |
| 2:30.0 | So today is one of the most significant days impacting elections in North Carolina in years. |
| 2:35.6 | The state Supreme Court issued three decisions today affecting voting rights ahead of the 2024 election. |
| 2:43.7 | That high court in that state as of November flipped to a Republican majority, and then it threw out two previous rulings. |
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