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in a Surprise order before Thanksgiving, The Supreme Court added a new case to its case file for the 2021-22 term on Wednesday.exist Berger v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, North Carolina Conference, The judge will weigh the state’s Republican lawmakers’ intervention to defend the state’s voter status laws.

The North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and several local chapters of the organization filed a lawsuit accusing the law of violating the Constitution and the Federal Voting Rights Act. All members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected the petitions of Phil Berger, the Speaker of the State Senate, and Tim Moore, the Speaker of the State House of Representatives, who are both Republicans to defend the law. The appeals court explained that the state’s Democratic attorney general had adequately defended the voter status law. Legislators came to the Supreme Court in August and asked the judges to decide whether to require them to prove that national interests were not adequately represented in order to intervene.

The justices considered the legislator’s petition at two meetings on November 12 and November 19, but they did not take action on the case. Give orders From Monday’s November 19th meeting. But in a brief order on Wednesday, the judges approved the review. The case may be scheduled to be debated at a certain time in the late winter or early spring.

This article is Originally published in Howe on the Court.