Supreme Court rejects ‘independent state legislature’ theory

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The Supreme Court rejected a fringe legal theory that would have let states run elections with little judicial oversight. The 6-3 decision turns away a conservative push to empower state legislatures.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court’s opinion, joined by the three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, along with two conservatives, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

In doing so, the nation’s top court maintained the power of state courts to review election laws under state constitutions, while urging federal courts to “not abandon their own duty to exercise judicial review.”

 

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