How the Supreme Court Endorsed the Authoritarian Behavior of State Legislatures

By giving a free pass to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court literally encouraged Republican lawmakers to grab and abuse as much power as they wanted. So they have.

The truth is more that the Court silenced the Constitution and set our democracy on a destructive course. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the liberals’ dissent, the Court had “encouraged a politics of polarization and dysfunction.” The resulting “unchecked” gerrymanders, she warned, “may irreparably damage our system of government.

Wisconsin is another state where Republican lawmakers wield overwhelming power due to partisan gerrymandering and are considering abusing that power to hold onto it. Earlier this month, voters overwhelmingly supported the election of Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin supreme court, flipping the court to having a liberal majority for the first time in years. But Republican Rep. Dan Knodl also won his race for a vacant Senate seat, giving Republicans a supermajority.

Add to this that the North Carolina supreme court, equipped with a new Republican majority among its justices, seems poised to toss recent redistricting rules to allow Republican lawmakers to gerrymander the state even further—along lines a previous court said were too racist to withstand scrutiny.

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