Progressive Judges Threaten to Override Will of Millions of North Carolina Voters

On August 19, the four Democrats on the North Carolina supreme court outvoted their three Republican colleagues in a case that could end up nullifying millions of votes.

The case has its origins in events that happened four years ago, in 2018. Back then, North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature placed six proposed state constitutional amendments on the November ballot, each one approved by the required three-fifths majorities in the state House and Senate. Voters approved four of the six amendments, despite a campaign by Democrats and their allies urging the electorate to “nix all six.”