{"id":753962,"date":"2022-07-21T05:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=250014"},"modified":"2022-07-21T05:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:52:23","slug":"the-constitution-versus-independent-state-legislature-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/21\/the-constitution-versus-independent-state-legislature-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution versus \u201cIndependent State Legislature\u201d Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, the Cato Institute&#8217;s Andy Craig points out at The Daily Beast, are trafficking in panic over an upcoming Supreme Court case, Moore v. Harper. While the case is nominally about who gets to decide whether newly drawn political district lines pass constitutional muster,\u00a0 its particulars intersect with controversy over something called the &#8220;independent state  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/21\/the-constitution-versus-independent-state-legislature-theory\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/21\/the-constitution-versus-independent-state-legislature-theory\/\">The Constitution versus &#8220;Independent State Legislature&#8221; Theory<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/21\/the-constitution-versus-independent-state-legislature-theory\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, the Cato Institute&#8217;s Andy Craig points out at The Daily Beast, are trafficking in panic over an upcoming Supreme Court case, Moore v. Harper. While the case is nominally about who gets to decide whether newly drawn political district l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753962"}],"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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753963,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753962\/revisions\/753963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}