North Carolina state House speaker says state courts violated constitution by drawing new congressional maps
"They said you had to draw districts that were fair. Now, they never defined what fair is," Moore said."So they gave us no metrics to use. There was no ability to be consistent with what it was they thought was fair. So we drew maps. They shot them down."
During Wednesday’s arguments, the Supreme Court examined what extent the state has over the"the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections." "This case is not about that or any other theory. It's about the elections clause to the U.S. Constitution," Moore said."If you think about what's happened, it’s what the courts have done, it's how far they've gone in ignoring the Constitution."
"When it comes to votes, when it comes to how our state votes. There is no argument that that's reasonable in my mind at all, that a state legislature would be empowered to just ignore the votes of the people of that state. That would be wrong from word go," said Moore. also pointed to the state constitution’s role in determining the legislature’s power.
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