Tomorrow, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Moore v. Harper. What started as a partisan gerrymandering case took a dangerous turn when North Carolina invoked a fringe legal theory to further its case. The independent state legislature theory has the potential to fundamentally alter our system of checks and balances on what state legislatures can do when it comes to our elections.
As CLC’s senior vice president (and resident SCOTUS expert, having argued cases before the Court over 20 times) Paul Smith explained in a recent video, if the Court adopts the theory, it would give politicians a license to pass undemocratic laws that thwart the will of voters by making it harder to vote.
Although Native Americans have profoundly diverse backgrounds, many Native voters experience the same substantial and unique barriers to voting. CLC's Skadden Fellow Nicole Hansen describes some of these barriers and ways to protect the freedom to vote for Native voters.
CLC’s senior director of ethics Kedric Payne asks John Roberts to commit to rebuilding public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court, starting with enacting a code of ethics.
We hope that this collaboration will help connect voters with the tools they need to exercise their rights, while elevating awareness about rising threats to our electoral process.
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