by Nick Gilbertson
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention. In a separate case, the court reversed a decision that previously tossed out a voter identification law.
“There is no judicially manageable standard by which to adjudicate partisan gerrymandering claims,” the court concluded in a 5-2 decision of the Harper v. Hall case. “Courts are not intended to meddle in policy matters.”
The 218-page decision comes months after the court threw out legislative maps drawn by the Republican-led chambers of Congress in the Tar Heel State.
In December — after voters flipped the court red in the midterm elections giving Republicans a 5-2 majority — the outgoing Democrat-controlled Supreme Court blocked the maps and ordered the legislative bodies to create new ones, the Associated Press noted at the time. Read the rest at breitbart.com.
Apparently, Nick Gilbertson (article’s author) is trying to say what the summary bug says more clearly. That is: NC Supreme Court Reinstates Voter ID.