How the Radical 'Independent State Legislature Theory' Could ...

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 Theory Undermines Elections ...

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of this theory, the laws state legislatures pass to regulate federal elections would become immune from the ...

Supreme Court Rejects Radical Independent State Legislature Theory

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the radical argument brought forward in the controversial case of Moore v. Harper that state legislatures have the sole ...

21-1271 Moore v. Harper (06/27/2023) - Supreme Court

Thus, when a state legislature carries out its federal constitutional power to pre- scribe rules regulating federal elections, it acts both as a ...

How can the SCOTUS take steps to check the radical independent ...

The Independent State Legislature Theory (ISL) is, as the name makes obvious, a legal theory or doctrine based on a reading or interpretation of the U.S. ...

The Independent State Legislature Theory, in Any Form, Poses an ...

Suggestions that the Supreme Court could adopt parts of the dangerous theory without upending elections are wrong.

Is There Anything Left in the Fight Against Partisan Gerrymandering ...

Congressional Redistricting Commissions and the “Independent State Legislature Theory”. Derek A. Zeigler*, Jose Urteaga** December, 2023.

Supreme Court Rejects GOP's Radical “Independent State ...

Writing for the majority in Tuesday's 6-3 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the so-called independent state legislature theory ...

Rehnquist and the 'Independent State Legislature' Theory

But North Carolina's Republican lawmakers appealed, arguing that the U.S. Constitution does not give state courts authority to rule on their ...

Court's Right-Wing Radicals Now Pose Lethal Threat To Democratic ...

The legal theory pushed by radical Republicans is called the “independent state legislature theory (ISL).” It asserts that no other state ...

Supreme Court Rejects Radical Independent State Legislature Theory

The court rejected the argument that only state legislatures have a say on redistricting and election laws.

A (Mostly) Good Supreme Court Ruling, Nixing the "Independent ...

A (Mostly) Good Supreme Court Ruling, Nixing the “Independent State Legislature” Theory of Election Law. It wasn't ideal, but by a 6-3 vote, the ...

Democracy Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief: Supreme Court Rejects ...

While knocking down an extreme version of the independent state legislature theory, Chief Justice John Roberts left the door wide open for a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

Supreme Court guts radical election 'theory' that would have saved ...

North Carolina lawmakers failed to win over the U.S. Supreme Court with the controversial "independent state legislature theory," that could ...

Supreme Court rejects 'independent state legislature' theory

July 4, 2023 11:01 p.m.. The United States Supreme Court rejected a legal theory June 27 that would have granted individual state legislatures increased ...

THE INDEPENDENT STATE LEGISLATURE DOCTRINE, FEDERAL ...

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

Supreme Court rejects independent state legislature theory in major ...

In declining to embrace the idea, which stems from an interpretation of the Constitution's Elections Clause, the court left in place a key check ...