{"id":1958025,"date":"2023-06-27T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-against-north-carolina-gop-in-congressional-map-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:33:34","slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-north-carolina-gop-in-congressional-map-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-against-north-carolina-gop-in-congressional-map-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects North Carolina GOP in map dispute."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsupreme-court-rules-against-north-carolina-gop-in-congressional-map-fight%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=1958025&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 Supreme Court Affirms Decision on Independent State Legislature Theory<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a decision by North Carolina&#8217;s top court but rejected a so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-likely-to-take-up-case-republicans-hope-will-recognize-states-power-to-regulate-elections\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Likely to Take Up Case Republicans Hope Will Recognize States' Power to Regulate Elections\">independent state legislature theory<\/a> at issue in the case.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Republican lawmakers from North Carolina argued the theory, the notion that the Constitution&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-against-north-carolina-gop-in-congressional-map-fight\/\" title=\"Supreme Court rejects North Carolina GOP in map dispute.\">elections clause gave state legislators<\/a> nearly unfettered authority 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, barred the state&#8217;s high court from setting aside congressional maps by the state&#8217;s legislature.<\/p>\n<h3>Continued Respect for State Judicial Review<\/h3>\n<p>The 6-3 majority decision held that the elections clause &#8220;does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reasoning we unanimously embraced in Smiley [v. Holm] commands our continued respect,&#8221; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. &#8220;A state legislature may not &#8216;create congressional districts independently of&#8217; requirements imposed &#8216;by the state constitution with respect to the enactment of laws.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April, the recently formed conservative majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned a previous ruling that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision\/\" title=\"Democrats may lose four House seats due to state Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision.\">disallowed partisan gerrymandering<\/a>, allowing Republicans in the state to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional lines that heavily favored the GOP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Universal Basic Income Payments: Big Cities That Have Jumped Into Programs to Give Away Money<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That decision threw into question the status of a case at the U.S. Supreme Court and whether that court&#8217;s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority will rule on a contentious ISL theory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing article and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court upheld North Carolina&#8217;s top court decision but dismissed the independent state legislature theory. Republican lawmakers claimed that the Constitution&#8217;s elections clause granted them extensive power to regulate federal elections. 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