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Monday, May 01, 2023

Moore v. Harper: What the Supreme Court Should Do After Friday's NC Decision

Jason Mazzone

Vik Amar and I have a column at Justia on the possibility that the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision last Friday overruling itself renders Moore v. Harper (the so-called independent state legislature (ISL) case) already argued at the U.S. Supreme Court moot. There is wide agreement that the Court should decide the ISL question and wide agreement also that it should do so far in advance of the next election cycle. So what to do? We urge the Court to grant cert. this week in Huffman v. Neiman, a case out of Ohio raising also the ISL issue. If the Court ends up resolving the merits of Moore, the Court can dismiss Huffman as improvidently granted (or vacate and remand in light of Moore as appropriate). If, though, the Court ultimately determines Moore is indeed moot, a cert. grant right now in Huffman will still allow the Court to resolve the ISL issue well before the 2024 election. Better yet: the Court should expedite briefing in Huffman and hear argument in a special sitting before the new October term begins. Read more here.


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