The U.S. Supreme Court will likely wait until next June to rule on whether activist state courts can use vague provisions within a state constitution to throw out election maps drawn by a legislature. But nearly three hours of oral argument Wednesday in the Moore v. Harper case offered clues about the court’s decision. That decision should arrive next June.
We live in a republic, which basically means a country not ruled by a monarch. One-hundred-fifty-nine nations call themselves republics, including China, North Korea, and Belarus. However, ours is a democratic republic, and a constitutional republic.