Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections
Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell...
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell decision Tuesday, turning back a right-wing attempt to vest the sole power in administering federal elections with state legislatures.
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could someone tl;dr what exactly this was, and what it would do?
SCOTUS just soundly rejected an idea called "independent state legislature theory" in a case called Moore v. Harper. Here's a good summary of the implications if it had been upheld:
"Proponents of the independent state legislature theory reject this traditional reading, insisting that these clauses give state legislatures exclusive and near-absolute power to regulate federal elections. The result? When it comes to federal elections, legislators would be free to violate the state constitution and state courts couldn’t stop them."