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We are a nation of political whims, not laws.
Settled law is one election away from becoming serious jurisprudential error. >

How is it settled law when the case was settled in 2022? Well if my understanding of linear time is correct, it seems pretty straightforward to me. >


In the case of North Carolina, Ms. Doran pointed out, rehearing a case is not a guarantee that the rulings under review will be thrown out. “I think we can anticipate that there are going to be very thoughtful arguments by all the parties involved,” she said.

The Times left out that Doran was visibly struggling not to laugh. >

Who remembers "Roe vs. Wade is settled precedent"? >

The Supreme Court's take on "Don't worry. I'll pull out." >

This Republic is dying in front of our eyes thanks to a shady partisan organization ( Federalist Society) that stacks courts with partisan hacks >

and thanks to the american tradition of putting some of the most important public offices up a public vote. i don't have a solution but i'm certainly open to them >

The Westminster System seems to work better than the US system. Our judges are not partisan here in NZ. >

It varies from state to state.  I grew up in California, where the State Bar nominates and vets candidates for the bench and the governor selects from those nominations, except for Superior Court judges, who are elected.  I currently live in Michigan, where judges are all elected. >

The courts are going to be really busy after every election. >

Every election where Republicans lose* >

As a non American we have a word for partisan judges it’s called “corruption “. 
A political Judge in the rest of the world is an embarrassment.  
At one point all the Judges on the Canadian Supreme Court were appointed by the right wing conservative politician save one. Canada got no legal surprises, no bizarre partisan decisions, no secret cabals of elitists plotting against the public good (looking at you Federalist Society). 
The American Courts are third world like in their political corruption.  It’s a real serious problem. >

Well, USA, it was a good run. >

Republicans are establishing permanent power right in front of our eyes. >

Nothing is permanent… some things just take more violence to change. Hope it doesn’t come to that, but it sure looks like we are headed that way. >

Extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and no citizen ballot initiatives (and a state legislature that will never give that power to the public) are making it pretty permanent in NC and a bunch of other states.
We need something like a states' bill of rights at this point. These red moocher states need to start meeting some basic fucking conditions to get any federal funding. Shit, blue/urban taxpayers will gladly pay for the upgrades. Better than paying for the downgrades and allowing states to waste taxpayer money on ridiculous shit with zero oversight, while holding back legislation an overwhelming majority of people actually want and common sense, fiscal responsibility, and human decency should fucking dictate... >

So much for the concept of a “ final judgment” >

Part of the article:  "
WASHINGTON — An extraordinary pair of orders by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Supreme Court is highlighting how the partisan tug of war has pervaded the state’s courts and, by extension, the nation’s.
On Friday, the court moved to rehear two major voting rights cases that it had previously decided, one striking down a gerrymandered map of State Senate districts and another nullifying new voter identification requirements.
Such rehearings by the court are exceedingly rare. In fact, North Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered as many rehearings on Friday as it has in the past three decades. What also made the rehearings exceptional was that the cases had been decided less than two months ago — by a court that, at the time, contained four Democratic and three Republican justices.
The court that voted to rehear the cases has a 5-to-2 Republican majority, courtesy of the party’s sweep of state Supreme Court races in November. The potential beneficiary of those reviews is the Republican leadership of the state General Assembly, which had both drawn the political map and enacted the voter ID law that the court struck down in December."
So this is what we got to look forward to, eh?  As soon as Judges of a certain party take over they reverse all the previous rulings of the opposite party judges, not based on law, but for pure political reasons, and we swing back and forth after so many years.  This is just another glaring example that our courts are captured by certain political interests and broken. >

I find it highly ironic that the Supreme Court that has a majority due to gerrymandering is hearing a case that would limit gerrymandering… >

The NC Supreme Court judges are elected in statewide races, not district races, so gerrymandering itself did not directly get them elected.
I say not directly because gerrymandering does have a chilling effect on voter turnout for the party that is disadvantaged by the gerrymander. 
In 2022, turnout in NC by traditionally blue voters (Dems/independents, 18-40 year olds, and urban/suburban) statewide was low enough to give Republicans the advantage. Old North State Politics analyzed the 2022 turnout data and the graphs tell the story very clearly: Old North State Politics 2022 NC Midterm Turnout. >

Stare decisis for thee but not for me >

All part of the GOP strategy. First make the legislature impotent. Then install judges to legislate from the bench. See SCOTUS for an example of this at the federal level. >

Republicans are killing America >

I think we're long past the time of the judiciary being non-partisan.
If we hadn't already been a decade ago. The sooner we all collectively realize this, the better off we'll be. >

the fact that we elect positions like sheriffs and judges has always struck me as a bad idea and the fact that my father was on the bench for 20 years as an elected judge has done nothing but reinforce my feelings.