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Speaker 1: Android devices. Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: June Grosso and Gregg Store discuss whether North Carolina Republicans

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Speaker 1: are trying to pack the State Supreme Court with conservatives.

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Speaker 1: They speak to former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert

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Speaker 1: or Bob on its face, adding the seats seems to

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Speaker 1: be against the will of North Carolina's voters, but it

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Speaker 1: is allowed by the North Carolina Constitution. So where does

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Speaker 1: that leave any challenges? Well, I don't think it leaves

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Speaker 1: the challenges with any room for success because the state

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Speaker 1: Costation authorizes the General Assembly to expand the court up

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Speaker 1: to UH two additional members from the current seven members

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Speaker 1: that we have. So I can't conceive of what kind

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Speaker 1: of legal theory Reverend Barber might come up if that

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Speaker 1: would UH effectively challenge the move if in fact it

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Speaker 1: takes place. Bob, I can just tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the North Carolina Supreme Court. June mentioned that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be four Democrats three Republicans. There was

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Speaker 1: a big election I know in November where the Democrat won.

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Speaker 1: How big of a difference will that election make? Is

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Speaker 1: this a court that's divided along partisan lines? Well, it's interesting, Uh,

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Speaker 1: most of the opinions issued by the court do not

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Speaker 1: fall along partisan lines, and in many are unanimous. It's

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Speaker 1: very much in a political court in that context. The

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Speaker 1: problem and where I really think that focus has todate

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Speaker 1: is on redistricting litigation. And probably for the last fifteen

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Speaker 1: years in North Carolina, redistricting plans have been litigated into

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Speaker 1: the state court system and up to the state Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: And frankly, HAP think the outside money we've seen in

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court races has been driven almost exclusively by part

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Speaker 1: of the considerations around redistricting plans and whether they comply

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Speaker 1: with the law and the Constitution. And so uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't think the change makes much different to the greater

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Speaker 1: scheme of the Court's responsibility. But redistricting is the hot

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Speaker 1: button issue. That's former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert

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