{"id":1930881,"date":"2023-05-14T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-dismiss-major-gop-election-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2023-05-14T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:57:30","slug":"biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-dismiss-major-gop-election-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-dismiss-major-gop-election-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s DOJ seeks dismissal of GOP election lawsuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-dismiss-major-gop-election-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Battle Over State Legislature Power in Federal Elections<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile case that could have major implications for voting rights. Republicans are arguing that state legislatures have the power to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-pennsylvania-gop-election-appeal\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Pennsylvania GOP Election Appeal\">regulate federal elections<\/a> without interference from state courts, citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-ripped-for-bizarre-distortion-of-clarence-thomas-dissent-in-pa-election-case\/\" title=\"CNN Ripped For \u2018Bizarre Distortion\u2019 Of Clarence Thomas Dissent In PA Election Case\">independent state legislature doctrine<\/a>. Democrats are pushing back, saying this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-to-hear-case-that-could-give-state-legislatures-not-judges-power-to-regulate-elections\/\" title=\"SCOTUS to Hear Case That Could Give State Legislatures, Not Judges, Power to Regulate Elections\">conservative legal theory<\/a> could lead to partisan gerrymandering and disrupt the electoral process.<\/p>\n<h3>The Moore v. Harper Case<\/h3>\n<p>At the center of this debate is the case of Moore v. Harper, which is currently being deliberated by the justices. Republican Tim Moore, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, is appealing an order by the state&#8217;s Supreme Court that redrew the electoral map against the wishes of the Republican-majority legislature. The state court found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-dismiss-major-gop-election-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Biden's DOJ seeks dismissal of GOP election lawsuit.\">map unlawfully favored<\/a> the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the U.S. Supreme Court was deliberating the case, the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which now has a Republican majority, decided to rehear the underlying case. They overruled themselves on April 28, stating that the General Assembly has sole authority over the redistricting process and that courts should not meddle in policy matters.<\/p>\n<h3>The Future of Voting Rights<\/h3>\n<p>This case is not just about partisan politics, but about the proper roles of the judicial and legislative branches. The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for supplemental briefs on how to proceed, and the outcome could have major implications for voting rights and the electoral process. It remains to be seen how the court will rule, but this case highlights the ongoing battle over state legislature power in federal elections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Republicans:<\/strong> argue that state legislatures have the power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts<\/li>\n<li><strong>Democrats:<\/strong> push back, saying this conservative legal theory could lead to partisan gerrymandering and disrupt the electoral process<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moore v. Harper:<\/strong> Republican Tim Moore is appealing an order by the state&#8217;s Supreme Court that redrew the electoral map against the wishes of the Republican-majority legislature<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Future:<\/strong> the outcome of this case could have major implications for voting rights and the electoral process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile case in which Republicans want the court to recognize state legislatures\u2019 power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts, which they say the U.S. Constitution requires. At issue is the once-obscure independent state legislature doctrine, under which Republicans argue that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":1930882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3706,7578,7076,3728,6203,4585,3814],"class_list":["post-1930881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bidens","tag-dismissal","tag-doj","tag-election","tag-gop","tag-lawsuit","tag-seeks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}