SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.
The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
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"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.
The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
#ISLtheory
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"That is a genuinely radical proposition...
The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"three justices—Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas—have spent two years campaigning for the ISL doctrine... Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a concurrence... invited the North Carolina Republicans in the Moore case to return to the SCOTUS after losing an emergency motion."
"If you give the legislature a blank check on the manner of appointing presidential electors, then a Republican majority could... simply disregard a Biden victory in the state’s popular vote & appoint Trump electors instead."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In litigation over the 2020 election, Texas and other Republican-led states showed exactly how that argument would work when they asked SCOTUS to block the certification of Biden electors in four swing states."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The pernicious threat of ISL, wrote Richard L. Hasen, an election-law expert at UCLA, is that “a state legislature dominated by Republicans in a state won by Democrats could simply ... take matters into its own hands & choose its own slate of electors.”
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"another threat to presidential elections...
state lawmakers may discard presidential voting results & appoint electors instead by declaring that voters have “failed to make a choice”—a phrase that is undefined in the law & was exploited in rogue vote-stealing efforts in 2020."
"Moore could set the stage for a major shift in voting law in the run-up to the 2024 election. The Court’s right wing appears to be spoiling for that...
SCOTUS would not even have put this case on its calendar."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"None of these factors restrained the Supreme Court’s right-wing justices. Just as they did in overturning Roe v. Wade... the right-wing justices seized on the first available vehicle for a paradigm-shifting decision."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Just as they did in overturning #RoeVWade, a ruling they need not have made to uphold the Mississippi abortion law, the right-wing justices seized on the first available vehicle for a paradigm-shifting decision."
#ISLtheory
#DemocracyInDanger
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Read the whole article by @bartongellman
How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election:
The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency.
#MoorevHarper
#ISLtheory
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See also this 🧵:
"Trump’s #Jan6th effort failed because every contested state had laws on the books requiring all of their Electoral College votes to go to whichever candidate won the popular vote in the state.
That will not be the case in 2024."
Or see @Thom_Hartmann article on Independent State Legislature (ISL) theory.
If SCOTUS legitimizes ISL (which is likely), GOP-run states can ignore actual election results & give that state's electoral college votes to whomever they want.
#MoorevHarper
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Also see🧵by @DavidPepper
“Giving statehouses [state legislatures] unfettered power when they aren't tied back to the people is precisely the nightmare the Founders feared.
And here's the problem...it's exactly what's happening...”
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