Supreme Court May Back Out of Ruling on Doctrine Empowering State Legislatures to Regulate Elections

Supreme Court May Back Out of Ruling on Doctrine Empowering State Legislatures to Regulate Elections
Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Tim Moore, speaks to the press in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 7, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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The U.S. Supreme Court signaled late on March 2 that it’s considering dropping a high-profile pending case in which Republicans are asking it to rule that state legislatures have greater power over federal elections.

The case, Moore v. Harper, court file 21-1271, is currently being deliberated by the justices after they heard almost three hours of oral arguments on Dec. 7, 2022, which The Epoch Times reported on at the time.