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Robert Reich warns of Supreme Court case that could give GOP-led states ‘total power over our democracy’
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Robert Reich warns of Supreme Court case that could give GOP-led states ‘total power over our democracy’
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Former United States Labor Secretary Robert Reich released a new video on Tuesday warning of the danger to democracy posed by an upcoming Supreme Court case.
Arguments scheduled for this fall in Moore versus Harper will petition the Court to embrace the fringe Independent State Legislature Theory that grants state lawmakers the power to supersede the will of the voters in presidential elections.
The lawsuit is an extension of the Republican Party’s embrace of ex-President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that the 2020 contest was stolen.
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“In February 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court blocked the state’s Republican-controlled general assembly from instituting a newly-drawn congressional district map, holding that the map violated the state constitutional ban on non-partisan gerrymandering,” Reich explained.
