G. K. Butterfield: “Which suggests to me, and you correct me if I am wrong, it suggests to me that the legislature counter has unfettered…”

what is the one thing, one key thing that you think Congress should do to improve access to the ballot for all of your fellow Pennsylvanian citizens?

I represent one of thirteen districts in North Carolina. And, as all of you certainly know, the Rucho case originated in my State, as well as the Moore v. Harper case.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.

I had spent thirty years in a courtroom before coming to Congress, and, you know, in a courtroom, the rules are so much different than the rules for ethics for Members of Congress.