Republicans will have to find a different way to rig their elections.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented
Well, no surprise there, even though their reason was that the decision is moot.
I have to say, I’m pleasantly surprised by this ruling. The way the court was leaning, I was fully expecting them to uphold the Independent State Legislature theory. And I’m extremely glad they rejected it, as it would have opened the door for MAGA-leaning state legislatures to unilaterally overturn their states’ election results, which is utterly terrifying.
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Started probably earlier than that, at least according to MajGen Smedley Butler
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I think the supreme court very much rules with it’s own relevance in mind.
Too much fuckery and the party in power will start supporting things like term limits and court packing.
There needs to be at least some fuckery, though, just to ensure the free yacht vacations and rent free homes for their moms don’t disappear.
If in the last few months, SCOTUS wasn’t being delegitimized through solid investigative journalism by some members of the press that the right-wing justices would have been ruling in the opposite.
There’s a theory going around that the main thing SCOTUS has been doing for a couple decades is increasing the power of courts over the other branches of government, and this decision is exactly in keeping with that.
I only disagree on the time length, because this has been happening since Marbury v Madison
