If the Supreme Court accepts North Carolina's argument, it would basically mean that any state legislature, Republican or Democratic, would be able to draw their maps and run their elections without oversight at all from other players in state government. Sabrina: This case is different from cases about the Voting Rights Act, a federal statute.Adam Sobel: Here, there are so many cross-currents that it's not at all for sure that the court accepts the independent state legislature theory.
The last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
The new term could be just as testing, with a series of deeply divisive cases on the docket.
Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.
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