Young Voters Respond to SCOTUS Moore v. Harper Ruling

In response to the Supreme Court ruling in Moore v. Harper, NextGen America President Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez released the following statement:

“We are glad the high court took a critical stance by rejecting North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers’ attempts to erode our nation’s checks and balances through the anti-democratic independent state legislature theory. Today, the Court ruled in favor of voters and protected state courts’ power to hold lawmakers accountable to state laws when it comes to our elections. This is a major win for voters and protects our democracy from attacks on voting rights and threats to our systems of free and fair elections.

“Now, young voters nationwide call on Congress to work on behalf of the people who elected them and enshrine critical voter protections into federal law. The stakes are too big and without Congressional legislative action we are facing the degradation of democracy. Young people will not stand idly by as we see the blatant and unchecked attack on our rights and our freedoms and we won’t stop organizing, mobilizing, and using our collective power until we create a democracy that works for all of us.”

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About NextGen America
NextGen America is the leading national organization for engaging young people through voter education, registration and mobilization. We invite 18-to-35 year olds — the largest and most diverse generation in American history — into our democracy to ensure our government works for them and to find new solutions to the dire challenges facing our society and the world. Since 2013, NextGen America has registered more than 1.5 million young voters and contacted 9.6 million young eligible voters during the historic 2022 midterm elections.