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How the Supreme Court Could Upend the Integrity of Our Elections – The Atlantic

Members of the Supreme Court s conservative supermajority just last week took the next step in a little-noticed, but extremely dangerous, project: attempting to jam into law a radical misinterpretation of the Constitution s elections and electors clauses, which, if successful, would create electoral chaos across the country. Before next summer, and well in advance of the 2024 presidential election, the Court could strip state courts and state constitutions of their ability to check and balance state legislators when they make laws for federal elections, giving partisan majorities near-total control over how voters cast ballots and how those ballots are counted. And it would make the current Court which already has a horrible track record on voting rights the ultimate judge of whether the legislatures actions are legal.

via www.theatlantic.com

Take the embedded commentary with a grain of salt. Presumably the Court would not have taken the case were it as utterly fringe as the authors claim. Another interesting case.