An important article about one of the current dangers facing the future of our country is “How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy” in the New Yorker. It is a reminder that the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority could still undermine the integrity of our electoral system just like it overturned the right to an abortion.
In other words, in a split second.
That at least three justices on the current Supreme Court seem to subscribe to this crackpot theory is frightening.
The independent-state-legislature-theory (ISLT) has no basis in law but is based on an interpretation of the Constitution that would allow any state legislature to determine the outcome of an election however it chooses to do so.
This theory was embraced by Trump administration lawyers in their frantic bid to retain power after losing the 2020 election.
Since then, extremists have advanced it in North Carolina and other states with Republican supermajorities. A North Carolina case has made it onto the Supreme Court’s agenda.
We can hope that the Court won’t decide to dismantle our democracy by legitimizing the ISLT, but then again many of us hoped it wouldn’t take away a woman’s right to choose.
And we all know what happened to that.
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