Thread by @RonBrownstein

Next legal showdown if Ds end filibuster to pass HR 1: GOP AGs have signaled they would argue that even if "elections" clause in Constitution gives Congress authority to set the rules for House/Senate elections, "electors" clause denies them that authority for presidential races

https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1413219779842740224

!n precedents back to 1934, #SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that Congress’s authority extends to all federal elections. Hugo Black in 1970: “It cannot be seriously contended that Congress has less power over... presidential elections than it has over congressional elections.”

Given those precedents, "I think the Court would have to be really overreaching to find that the authority of Congress to … put in place these important standards … did not apply to federal elections broadly, meaning congressional and presidential elections,” says @RepSarbanes

But former RNC counsel Ben Ginsberg thinks this SCOTUS could buy the GOP AG case that Congress can only set national rules for House/Senate, but not presidential races: "My guess is that this Supreme Court, with its textualist bent, would buy into that argument,” he says.