The Latest Breaking News from Moore

This Supreme Court hasn’t exactly been shy about issuing extremely conservative rulings. Even so, one pending case stands out for its combination of dangerous and unhinged. That case is Moore v. Harper, and involves the so-called independent state legislature theory. The bad news is that Wednesday’s oral argument underscored how…

Untraceable right-wing money has flowed into a network of right-wing groups seeking to limit voting rights

Does a state supreme court have the power to find that an act of the state legislature violates the state constitution? The answer to that question should be clear and obvious, but the conservative justices of the Supreme Court expressed doubt about it at oral arguments in Moore v. Harper…

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper on Dec. 7, the last day of its December sitting.

An attorney in the Moore v. Harper Supreme Court case may have doomed the GOP's effort

Another law professor friend recently started listening to some Supreme Court oral arguments after some time away, and remarked to me that the arguments have gotten very long, and that many of the Justices have stopped letting people answer their questions. I think most people who follow the Court's arguments…

The ‘independent state legislature’ theory has rarely been put forward, and then only by blatant partisans acting in bad faith

The "independent state legislature" theory is a ludicrous fringe position. Will that stop the right-wing justices?

What is meant by "each State by the Legislature thereof" that prescribes how to conduct elections?

Right-wing legal groups and Republican lawmakers put the so-called ‘independent state legislature’ theory at the centre of one of the most important tests for democracy in front of the US Supreme Court, Alex Woodward reports

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case about North Carolina’s congressional map that could give state legislatures more sway over federal elections.