Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Decoding The Supreme Court’s Silence On Independent State Legislature Theory
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-theory-3

Moore v. Harper, grew out of a contested North Carolina redistricting process ... the independent state legislature theory (ISLT) is a right-wing idea that state legislatures are entitled to sole authority over administering federal elections.

A maximal reading of this notion excludes state courts, state constitutions and even governors’ vetoes.

#SCOTUS #ISLT #IndependentStateLegislatureTheory

Decoding The Supreme Court’s Silence On The Independent State Legislature Theory

The Supreme Court asked for an additional round of briefings on what it should do with a major, potentially mooted election law case out of North Carolina over a month ago. Since then, crickets.

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Jun 14, 2023 at 4:24pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 14, 2023

... The silence implies that some kind of writing is happening, dragging out the process. The question is what is being written.

*Comment: as I recall there was a similar ominous silence preceding the conservative U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022-06.

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 14, 2023

(2022-09-12) The radical legal theory that could upend the 2024 election.
https://popular.info/p/the-radical-legal-theory-that-could

(2022-09-12) Experts Warn Supreme Court Supporting 'Dangerous' GOP Legal Theory Could Destroy U.S. Democracy. Independent state legislative theory - a formerly fringe right-wing notion that state lawmakers alone can regulate federal elections - will be tested in the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming months.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/experts-warn-supreme-court-supporting-dangerous-gop-legal-theory-could-destroy-us

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The radical legal theory that could upend the 2024 election

In a 2018 address to the Federalist Society, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "joked" that Leonard Leo, a right-wing operative, was the "number three most powerful person in the world." Thomas may need to revise his ranking. For decades, Leo has worked to reshape the American judiciary. Leo first met Thomas in 1990 in Washington, DC, when Leo was a law clerk and Thomas was an appellate judge. Leo then helped "

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