In Moore v. Harper, SCOTUS Could Decide Who Gets The Final Say In A 2024 Election Dispute

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If a dispute arose over the results of the 2024 election, Moore v. Harper might provide the touchstone for a state legislative role in determining the winner.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in the biggest sleeper case of its 2022-23 term.

The justices already have before them the blockbuster dispute of whether government-funded or -run colleges and universities can continue to use race in making admissions decisions, testing whether the court will live up to the Constitution’s promise of equal protection of the laws and that the government will treat its citizens as individuals without regard to race. But the Supreme Court also has before it a potentially earth-shaking case involving governmental structure in addition to individual rights.

Moore v. Harper asks the justices to decide whether a state court can impose its own map for congressional districts drawn after the decennial census. It will test whether the Supreme Court will honor the Constitution’s text, rather than past practice, with implications for the control not just over congressional districting (which helped Republicans win the House in the most recent midterm elections) but also the selection of presidential electors. If a true dispute arose over the results of the 2024 election, Moore v. Harper might provide the touchstone for a state legislative role in determining the winner.

What History Tells Us

The Constitution seems clear that only state legislatures can draw redistricting maps. Article I, Section 4 states that “[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

The elections clause permits (but does not require) states to create districts as a means of electing their members of the House of Representatives. Congress requires states to draw such districts, and it could even impose its own districts under its power to “make or alter” state laws governing federal elections.

By John Yoo and Robert Delahunty

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