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election systems. Moreover, the doctrine may present a potentially substantial obstacle to the use of state constitutions to combat partisan gerrymandering in ...

Independent State Legislature Theory - Five Four Pod

A podcast where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have caused our civil rights to fall far short of their promise.

Independent State Legislature - American Bar Association

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide the monumental voting rights case Moore v. Harper. The case concerns a legal doctrine known as ...

"The Independent State Legislature Doctrine, Federal Elections, and ...

The U.S. Constitution does not confer authority to regulatefederal elections on states as entities. Rather, it grants thatauthority specifically to the ...

LDF Applauds Supreme Court's Rejection of - Legal Defense Fund

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the anti-democratic independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper. Independent state legislature ...

The Court Is Likely to Reject the Independent State Legislature Theory

The theory—that state legislatures have the unreviewable power to set the rules of their state's federal elections—is a dangerous one. The case ...

What is the 'independent state legislature' theory? - The Hill

The Supreme Court upheld the right of courts to review the constitutionality of federal election maps produced by state legislatures on Tuesday.

Independent state legislature theory, explained - Slow Boring

The legal doctrine, rejected by the Supreme Court, posed a far-reaching threat to American democracy.

Democracy on the ballot—the "independent state legislature theory ...

Could state legislatures be empowered to override the choice of voters on Election Day in a presidential election?

Six justices agree: the independent state legislature theory is dead

A six-justice majority rejected the independent state legislature theory. Here's what that victory means, and what comes next.

What is the “Independent State Legislature Doctrine”? – Part 2

One is whether state constitutions can limit elected state legislatures with regard to congressional and/or presidential elections. So there's a what question.

Supreme Court rejects Independent State Legislature theory - WITF

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those ...

The "Independent" State Legislature in Republican Theory

By the adoption of the Twelfth. Amendment, which changed the structure of presidential elections, political elites viewed republican government ...

6 Reasons the Far-Right's 'Independent State Legislature Theory ...

Related Issues · A century of Supreme Court precedents reinforce that state legislatures can't defy their own constitutions – or cut state courts ...

Supreme Court to hear controversial election-law case - NPR

The "independent state legislature theory" could give state legislatures independent power to put in place all manner of election rules, ...

The Danger of the Independent State Legislature Theory - FairVote

The most radical version of the ISL theory would hold that state courts cannot strike down state election law for federal elections.

Ask PolitiFact: What is independent state legislature theory, and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering one of the most important election law cases in decades, with potentially sweeping.

Independent State Legislature Theory Going Before SCOTUS

as justices will ultimately decide whether the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures sole authority to regulate federal elections beyond the purview of ...

The Supreme Court Has Rejected The Independent State ... - LAist

The court rules that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those provisions, ...

SCOTUS Rejects the Independent State Legislature Theory - JD Supra

In what some deem the “800-pound gorilla” of election law, the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 27, 2023, rejected the so-called independent ...