SCOTUS Today – June 30, 2022

🔥SCOTUS Agreed To Hear Fed. Election Case🔥 TODAY!!!

🔥Article 1 Of Constitution 🔥

Supreme Court today agreed to hear case that could dramatically change how fed. elections are conducted. Issue: legal theory that gives state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts & constitutions.

“Independent state legislature theory,” – election clause in Art. I of Constitution “The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and reps, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.”

https://n.pr/3yw5Al6

H/T Lea Winter

https://t.me/EightQBall

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Just in: In an election case out of North Carolina, SCOTUS agrees to review the "independent state legislature" theory next term. Under that theory, state legislatures have broad power to set rules for federal elections, even if state courts say those rules are unconstitutional.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2022

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BREAKING: Supreme Court restores GOP-drawn lines in Louisiana for the midterm elections. SCOTUS rejected Democrats claims that the map “suppressed the black vote.”

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The Supreme Court sharply curtails the authority of the EPA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change. In a 6-3 ruling, the court sides with conservative states and fossil-fuel companies in adopting a narrow reading of the Clean Air Act.

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The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Biden administration to terminate the controversial Trump-era asylum policy known as “remain in Mexico.” Red states argued that Biden was obliged to keep the policy, but SCOTUS says in a 5-4 ruling that the administration can end it.

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