{"id":32627,"date":"2023-07-23T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/americas-democracy-hangs-by-slender-threads"},"modified":"2023-07-23T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:29:13","slug":"americas-democracy-hangs-by-slender-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/americas-democracy-hangs-by-slender-threads","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Democracy hangs by Slender Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>January 6, 2021, marked a sea change in American democracy. On that morning, if someone had proclaimed that America\u2019s Democracy, the oldest in the world, was the strongest and unassailable, it would have been difficult to hear a dissent.<\/p>\n

By that afternoon, a sitting President, in thinly couched language, tried to incite a mob to pressure Vice President Pence and Republican Senators to disregard the Constitution and reject the lawfully appointed electors in the just completed election of November 2020.<\/p>\n

To be sure, since just after the election, there had been a series of challenges to the election results by Trump and his supporters in the courts, and administrative bodies.<\/p>\n

More than 60 lawsuits were dismissed and most described as frivolous. Courts sanctioned Trump and the lawyers who took up his cause for filing baseless claims.<\/p>\n

Independent state legislature theory? US Supreme Court isn\u2019t buying it \u2013 Bloomberg<\/b><\/p>\n

The rumblings from Trump\u2019s discordant and dissonant griping continue. As a result, a sizable cohort of Trump\u2019s supporters continue to question the 2020 results.<\/p>\n

What is even more troubling than the mob mentality of Trump\u2019s gullible MAGA (Make America Great Again) crowd, are the susurrations of the Republican legislators, at the state and federal levels who continue to champion the cause of this seditionist former president.<\/p>\n

The Elections Clause of the U. S. Constitution states: \u201cThe Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.<\/p>\n

\u201d Congress has the power to change regulations adopted by a state legislature except as to the place of choosing Senators.<\/p>\n

Frustrated by their inability to overturn Joe Biden\u2019s resounding victory in the 2020 election, Republicans around the country latched on to the theory that the Elections Clause gives exclusive authority to state legislatures to set the rules for federal elections.<\/p>\n

This assumes that Congress does not change the state rules as the Clause authorizes it to do. With a closely divided Congress, it would be impossible for Democrats to do that.<\/p>\n

Republicans saw this as their path to circumventing the popular vote and manipulating the selection of electors as a way of helping Donald Trump or another Republican craft a \u201cvictory\u201d in 2024 and elections beyond.<\/p>\n

North Carolina\u2019s legislature, acting under authority of the Elections Clause, drew a Congressional map in an obvious exercise of gerrymandering, to favour Republicans.<\/p>\n

The North Carolina Supreme Court eventually ruled that the partisan map violated the state Constitution. The U. S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has held that partisan gerrymandering presents a political question that the courts cannot resolve, i.<\/p>\n

e. , that such questions are nonjusticiable. Thus, except when prohibited factors such as race, national origin, or creed, are used to deny fair representation by crafting gerrymandered districts, the federal courts will not interfere.<\/p>\n

But \u201csimply because the Supreme Court has concluded partisan gerrymandering claims are nonjusticiable in federal courts,\u201d the North Carolina Supreme Court explained, \u201cit does not follow that they are nonjusticiable in North Carolina courts.<\/p>\n

\u201d The State Supreme Court also rejected the argument raised by Republicans, that the Elections Clause in the Federal Constitution vests exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to draw congressional maps. This theory, they argued, precludes any oversight or review of the state legislature\u2019s actions, even by the courts of the state.<\/p>\n

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