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Supreme Court rules against fringe legal election theory


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?

Supreme Court Weighs Voting Rights Case Based on Fringe Theory ...

At stake in Moore v. Harper is whether North Carolina Republican lawmakers had the authority to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that ...

The Supreme Court May Well Legalize Election Theft This Term

It was Democratic governors and state courts that prevented Republican legislatures from illegally changing their states' electoral tallies from ...

Governor Cooper Statement on Supreme Court Rejection of NC ...

Governor Roy Cooper issued the following statement on the US Supreme Court's ruling on the Moore v. Harper case, rejecting NC Republicans' fringe election ...

Supreme Court weighs 'most important case' on democracy - WHYY

The court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case from North Carolina, where Republican efforts to draw congressional districts heavily in ...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Fringe Theory That Trump Tried to Use ...

The Court rejected the “independent state legislature theory”—an extreme reading of the Constitution that would have eroded America's system ...

Crackpot MAGA Theory (Thankfully) Loses at the Supreme Court

These are exactly the reasons we have state and federal courts, as Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his 30-page opinion, which cited the first ...

Supreme Court Fails to Uphold Constitutional Provision Protecting ...

This “federalization of state constitutions will serve mainly to swell federal-court dockets with state constitutional questions.” What upends ...

The Supreme Court, Partisan Election Control, and U.S. Democracy

The US Supreme Court this week also rejected a dangerously legal theory that would have upended American democracy.

Supreme Court Rejects a Republican Effort to Hijack Elections

In Moore v. Harper, the court ruled against the controversial “independent state legislature” theory.

Lawmakers, advocates react to Supreme Court decision in Moore v ...

The Supreme Court sided with a group of North Carolina voters who challenged an attempt by state Republican lawmakers to circumvent a state ...

The Flimsy Legal Theory That Could Upend American Elections

On the Political Scene podcast, Moore v. Harper, and how the independent-state-legislature theory became a threat to democracy.

POLITICO on X: "The Supreme Court rejected a fringe legal theory ...

The Supreme Court rejected a fringe legal theory that would have let states run elections with little judicial oversight.

The Supreme Court planted a time bomb for voting in Moore v. Harper.

What Chief Justice John Roberts left unresolved in his majority opinion is going to be hanging out there.

The US Supreme Court struck down a GOP effort to subvert elections

North Carolina, and the independent state legislature theory, lost in a 6-3 decision.

How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy

Andrew Marantz for the New Yorker on the independent state legislature theory: If the Supreme Court reverses the state-court ruling, it ...

U.S. Supreme Court Shuts Door on Fringe Legal Theory

COLUMBUS – House Minority Leader Allison Russo (D-Upper Arlington) calls today's Moore v. Harper ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that ...

Court unlikely to buy independent state legislature theory

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a North Carolina case that could eliminate the power of governors and state courts to check the authority ...

Commentary: Fair elections are safe — for now — with court ...

A fringe legal theory that former President Donald Trump's supporters tried to use to help overturn the 2020 presidential election was put ...

Reaction round-up to U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Moore v ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the 'independent state legislature' theory brought forth by North Carolina Republicans in Moore v. Harper.