The Supreme Court just shut off Trump allies' strategy to overturn presidential elections
Raw StoryThe Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Moore v. Harper, rejecting a fringe legal theory that that could have given state legislatures a blanket right to ignore state courts on election and redistricting issues and pass unrestricted rigged legislative maps, was met with a collective sigh of relief by voting rights advocates across the country. "The Supreme Court said clearly that state legislatures do not have unlimited authority and that in most instances state courts, as had been traditionally understood, can weigh in," reported Lawrence Hurley. Moreover, "independent state legislature theory," noted Hurley, was actively championed by some of the same activists who tried to throw out the election: "Conservative lawyer Eastman had embraced the theory as part of his widelydiscredited argument that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to refuse to certify the 2020 presidential election results," even citing the so-called "plenary power" of the legislatures in his infamous memo outlining how to overturn the election. "Andrew Grossman, a conservative lawyer who filed a brief at the Supreme Court urging it to overturn the Pennsylvania court ruling in 2020, said the new ruling made it clear that 'there are going to be some limits' on state courts," said the report.