How a Supreme Court case on federal elections could imperil democracy

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Some Republicans say state legislatures should have the power to override federal elections. The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could make that the law of the land. We hear why some say that would imperil our democracy. Bertrall Ross, Dan Vicuña and Dallas Woodhouse join Anthony Brooks.

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0:18.8	I'm Anthony Brooks and this is on point.
0:25.6	The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case
0:28.3	that could dramatically change how federal elections are conducted.
0:32.4	At issue a fringe legal theory that would give state legislatures
0:36.8	absolute authority to set rules for federal elections
0:40.2	without any oversight from state courts.
0:42.8	It's known as the independent state legislature theory
0:46.8	and legal scholars, including some Republicans,
0:49.6	say the case could deliver a body blow to American democracy.
0:53.7	The theory is driving a case from North Carolina.
0:57.0	That's where the state Supreme Court rejected a gerrymandered
1:00.6	congressional redistricting map drawn up by the Republican
1:04.1	controlled legislature.
1:06.2	The state Supreme Court said the hyperpartisan map violated
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