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Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections (talkingpointsmemo.com)
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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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[–] 8 points 3 years ago

This seems to part of it. Another part is a large portion of their power comes from the reputation of abject impartiality... and the dobs ruling definitely calls that into question.

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