A powerful and necessary reality check on just how partisan and corrupted by power politics the North Carolina judiciary has become, laid bare in this instance by the RFK Jr. legal saga of getting on and then getting off the November ballot.
An unsigned posting on Carolina Forward succinctly lays out the indictment of our highest courts:
From beginning to end, the sordid affair of the Kennedy campaign in North Carolina revealed just how weak the rule of law has become in our state, compared to the raw exercise of partisan political power.
Robert Kennedy Jr. was allowed, in multiple instances, to evade, ignore and manipulate North Carolina state law, and was permitted to do so by Republican political actors – specifically judges – seeking to give Donald Trump an electoral boost. The laws of the State of North Carolina had very little impact on what the Kennedy campaign did; only the whims of opinion polling made a difference. That is not a sound system of election administration. While the NC State Board of Elections generally made the correct calls under the law, our state’s politicized judicial system failed to uphold the supremacy of those laws, and opted instead for their own circumstantial partisan interest.
We don’t know yet who will win in November. But at least in this case, the people of North Carolina lost.
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