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And without this theory, a lot of the pain and anguish that our country was dragged through by people like john eastman would not have existed. i'm glad it's been put to bed, but it should never have been legitimized. >> i want to stay on this for. second of the little technical but i think people should understand. back in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic you had all these questions about how are we gonna run an election in the pandemic? in many cases what you had were state supreme court saying our state constitution guarantee certain rights to the people of our state, and that state const...

Legislatures, the framers recognized are the mere creatures of the state constitutions, and cannot be greater than their creators. meaning the state government as a whole functions to oversee elections. it is the state constitution that is interpreted by state courts, they get to say. state legislatures aren't some special magical power that overrules everything in the state. that's ludicrous. this is the second pro democracy ruling from this very right-wing court this term alone. remember, a few weeks ago they also upheld crucially section two of the voting rights act and struck down flagrant...

In a 6-3 ruling, the justices affirmed the power of state courts to review state laws governing federal elections — a decision that rejects a once-fringe legal theory pushed by Republicans.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a strong rejection of a controversial legal theory that threatened to upend state election laws nationwide and give state legislatures unchecked power over federal election rules in the case Moore v. Harper. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court sided with a group of North Carolina voters who challenged an attempt by state Republican lawmakers to circumvent a state court decision that struck down a new gerrymandered election map. Roberts was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Bre...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe case was “a plot to steal the 2024 election,” according to former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich. The Center for American Progress warned that the Supreme Court might adopt an “extreme MAGA election theory that threatens democracy.” Democratic election litigator Marc Elias chastised fellow progressives for pursuing the matter, insisting that “given the composition of the Supreme Court, no one who cares about free