G. K. Butterfield: “We, in this majority, have been sent here to protect the Affordable Care Act.”

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

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.

Now the Supreme Court is going to have to decide whether or not State courts have any authority whatsoever over election laws within the State.