Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said the ruling was a “welcome signal in advance of 2024.”
, calling the Court’s rejection of the “independent state legislature theory” a win in the fight for voting and civil rights.
“This is a good decision that curbs some of the power of Republican state legislatures and affirms the importance of checks and balances,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement.do possess the right to review state election laws In his dissent, Thomas argued that the “framework” offered by the majority would “have the effect of investing potentially large swaths of state constitutional law with the character of a federal question not amenable to meaningful or principled adjudication by federal courts.” Thomas also noted that the case was moot; the lower court, the North Carolina Supreme Court, had vacated its original ruling that sparked the petition to the Court.
North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, the Democratic frontrunner in the state’s competitive gubernatorial race in 2024, tweeted Tuesday that the ruling “reaffirmed the most central principle of our democracy: that the people, not politicians, have political power.”
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