The Atomic Bomb of Election Subversion

As summer winds on and the House Select Committee on January 6th continues to lay out its evidence against the disgraced, twice-impeached 45th president of the United States, any doubt that Donald J. Trump attempted to defraud the US by trying to overturn a free and fair election is being methodically and definitively obliterated. Soon only the most fanatical Trump deadenders will be left insisting otherwise — histrionically, in hopes that the rest of us will believe that day is night, up is down, and urine is rainwater if they say it long and loud enough.

There will surely be more jawdropping moments before that drama plays out to its conclusion. (Stock up on Diet Dr. Pepper.) But while that is unspooling, another grave threat to representative democracy in America is quietly occurring out of the spotlight, one that is far less theatrical, but presents an equally worrying emergency.

Get used to the name “Moore v. Harper.” Because it might soon join the likes of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States, Citizens United v. FEC, and others in legal infamy.

Caution: Overton Window in Motion

Narrowly speaking, Moore involves the right of North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state legislature to redraw voting districts for its 14 seats in the US House…