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In Roe v. Wade,REF the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 created a constitutional right to abortion and issued rules for implementing it that invalidated the pro-life laws of all 50 states. As a result, abortion advocates went to federal court to challenge laws protecting the unborn that legislatures continued to enact.
Bodily autonomy or your righ to vote is on the line, th question of who holds the gave makes a huge difference. joining me now to talk about this is the brennan center judiciary program director alicia bannon, welcome, alicia >> thank you so much for havin me >> thanks for being here, we just want to put all this in perspective, what is at stak in the state supreme court elections? we are trying to not talk abou state supreme courts, we tal even less about their elections. but, what does this mean about the individual state level and in the national landscape? >> well, states brim courts ar th...
An alternative slate of electors. a lot of those things are gonna be fixed by this bill. the fight this bipartisan is really important because that means that there is buy in for both sides and makes it much harder for that law to be ignored, next time they're something like what we saw in the 2020 election. >> this cable tv, we don't have a ton of time. i'm gonna ask you the most complicated question that you can give me a short answer to. there is a case -- war v. harper that talks about this fringe theory called the independency legislator theory that says state legislators can do what they...
Not read the election clause the way you just heard. there are two reasons to affirm. one is that when an legislation, there's no such thing as an independent state legislature. the other is that north carolina statutes authorized with the north carolina court that all focused on the first. the idea that state legislatures greeted by state constitutions are independent of them is wrong. it is rejected by the articles of confederation, rejected by the early state constitutions, rejected by the founding practice. especially in new york, where judges vetoed federal election bills. it's also rejec...
They want state legislatures to have almost total control over federal elections so badly that they are ready to tear apart their state constitutions when it comes to the founding principles of checks and balances. the state supreme court reviewed, no. the gubernatorial veto, now we're not gonna have it. we're gonna have with -- with extreme technologically diabolical meandering, looking at taking away the same-day registration, a voter i.d. law that so struck that even a college i.d. at u.n.c. won't work. taking away provisional ballots from people who come into the wrong precinct. shortening...