Summary: In Moore v. Harper, decided last year, the Supreme Court addressed the “independent state legislature theory.” In a case arising out of an election in North Carolina, proponents of the theory contended that North Carolina’s Supreme Court did not have the authority to review a legal claim that the state legislature had adopted an illegally gerrymandered congressional map. The Supreme Court rejected the theory by a 6-3 vote in Moore. In this Touro Law Review podcast, Nicholas Maggio, an attorney who has written about the independent state legislature theory, discusses the case – in particular, its relevance during an election year and its significance for understanding the current Supreme Court – with Associate Dean Rodger Citron.
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Nicholas Maggio is an attorney licensed to practice law in New York State and the United States District Court in the Eastern District of New York. He has served as a prosecutor in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and will be a law clerk for the Hon. Victoria Reznik in 2024-25. Before graduating from Touro Law Center in 2020, he interned with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and the New York Civil Liberties Union and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Touro Law Review.
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