07-30-2022, 05:29 PM
(07-30-2022, 04:52 PM)Bengalfan4life27c Wrote: No different than republicans trying to alter the presidential election by having the state legislatures elect who they want for president regardless of popular vote. It's likely if supreme court rules in favor of state legislatures having this power it could possibly start a 2nd civil war with states like NY and CA seceding from the union . Reading the tea leaves according to reports Alito and Gorsuch dont want to go this far thankfully. They do want to give state legislatures the power to gerrymander however they feel like it. Once they do this it will backfire because the gerrymander will be extreme in NY and CA for example. They drew a map in NY recently where had it been enacted R would have been favored in only 1 seat in the house.
Actually, the SCOTUS doesn't need to rule on anything for a state to be able to do that. That's completely constitutional. The Constitution gives the states the authority to determine how they select their electors. The state could have them all appointed by the governor, or the state legislature, or any other means. Hell, they could do it by a dartboard method. Doesn't matter. A state's legislature is invested with the authority by the Constitution to determine how electors are chosen.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
