The Independence Day legislature theory was the centerpiece of the efforts to overturn

the 2020 presidential election.

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So Morvie Harper was a challenge to a North Carolina state Supreme Court ruling about

a Jerry Manderd electoral map.

On Tuesday, the court, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts resoundingly

rejected the quote, independent state legislature theory that had been pushed by state Republicans.

That theory would have given state legislatures virtually unchecked or what we in the law

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