Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Wednesday, June 28th. I'm Nailibutu. Here's

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But first, the Supreme Court rejects a sweeping conservative bid to control elections. That's

today's one big thing.

The Supreme Court yesterday denied state legislatures the unchecked power to set rules for federal

elections. The justice is voted six to three against the independent state legislature

legal theory brought by North Carolina GOP lawmakers. The National Constitution Center's

Jeffrey Rosen is here with that. And what else we need to know about the Supreme Court

right now? Hi, Jeff. Hi. First, can you help us understand with this independent state

legislature legal theory was absolutely the entire theory and in some ways the future

of American elections hinged on the meaning of a single word legislature article one section

four of the Constitution says the elections shall be regulated in each state by the legislature

thereof. And proponents of the independent state legislature theories say legislature

means legislature. It doesn't mean state courts interpreting what a legislature is done.

And they say the Constitution gives the power to regulate elections exclusively to state

legislatures. And therefore state courts and no other body can review what the legislatures

have done after the fact in practice if the Supreme Court had adopted this theory, it

would mean that state legislatures could decide after the fact that Trump had won instead

of Biden and change the results of the election. Jeff, it seems logical that the Supreme

Court wouldn't limit another court's power even if it was a state Supreme Court, right?

Well, the independent state legislature doctrine would have the Supreme Court do exactly that

and would basically say that based on a completely a historical reading of this single word

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