{"id":1107547,"date":"2023-06-27T16:07:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=999cdc92c41f897b13be3b2ebeeb4623"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:07:25","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-novel-theory-that-could-have-upended-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/27\/supreme-court-rejects-novel-theory-that-could-have-upended-us-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rejects Novel Theory That Could Have Upended US Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a novel legal theory that would have limited the ability of courts to be a check on state legislatures&rsquo; redrawing of state and congressional districts. On Tuesday, the High Court ruled, in Moore v. Harper, against the independent state legislature theory, a fringe idea that there is a constitutional separation between state courts and state legislatures that...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/supreme-court-rejects-novel-theory-that-could-have-upended-us-elections\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/supreme-court-rejects-novel-theory-that-could-have-upended-us-elections\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the &#8220;independent state legislature&#8221; theory is not a sound legal doctrine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63803,55188,50869,4,3636,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107548,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107547\/revisions\/1107548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}