Voters have no right to fair elections, NC lawmakers say as they seek to dismiss gerrymandering suit

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Lawyers representing state legislative leaders were in court Thursday in Raleigh, arguing to throw out an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit that targets the state's new political districts.

The lawsuit argues that the state constitution guarantees the right to fair elections, and it says the new districts violate that promise. The Republican-led legislature argues that no such right exists, since it's impossible to define what "fair" means.

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We have a right to bear arms, but we don’t have a right to fair elections?

The solution is left as an exercise to the reader.

They just don’t seem to be able to not drive everything there, do they.

Okay MAGAs. You continuously demanded it.

Something about "shall not be infringed", and they couldn't care less about anything else.

Well the alternative to fair elections is political violence. Choose wisely, the people enacting that violence could be a wildcard for any ideology.

Hmm, don't see anywhere in the Constitution where elected officials have a "right to life". Your move NC.

Republicans haven't wanted fair elections in decades.

Or… ever…

Well, unless you count the time they used to be the democratic party before everything was switched.

I'm sure that it will be fixed after this election and broken again before the next. The Supreme Court made sure of that back in 2022 with the Merrill v Milligan verdict where they admited that the racially gerrymandered districts were illegal, but allowed to be used anyways so long as it's relatively close to an election.

When an election is close at hand, the rules of the road must be clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others.

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Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others.

I wonder if there's anything else that'd be unfair? You know like making the votes of citizens not reflect their demographics

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

B-b-b-but Democrats struggle to win elections because their base doesn't vote!