J Christian Adams: SCOTUS taking NC election case show end of expansive govt, ‘elites knowing best how to govern American life’

Members of the Supreme Court.

J Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, discusses the groundbreaking decision by the Supreme Court to take up a North Carolina election cases where the Court will be looking at whether the Constitution gives the state legislatures the authority to set the rules for their elections in North Carolina. Adams, a former Justice Department voting rights official, says that this Supreme Court session has shown that the court has “exasperation with bureaucracy,” and the “Wilsonian idea that the elites know best how to be technocrats to govern American life.” Saying that the recent Court decisions and opinions show “finally you see judges who don't give a rip about what the elites think,” “the big story is the regular people finally have a voice in the Supreme Court instead of the elites.”

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