{"id":927948,"date":"2022-12-21T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=268913"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T06:50:47","slug":"scotus-could-let-state-legislatures-decide-presidential-election-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/21\/scotus-could-let-state-legislatures-decide-presidential-election-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Could Let State Legislatures Decide Presidential Election Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are arguing about resurrecting an Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT) derived from language within the dysfunctional\u00a0Articles of Confederation Constitution. This is the Constitution that stopped the colonies from forming a functional central government until our current Constitution replaced it. Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman labels this theory as a \u201chyper-literal interpretation\u201d\u00a0of Article I,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/21\/268913\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/21\/268913\/\">SCOTUS Could Let State Legislatures Decide Presidential Election Counts<\/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\/12\/21\/268913\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are arguing about resurrecting an Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT) derived from language within the dysfunctional\u00a0Articles of Confederation Constitution. This is the Constitution that stopped the colonies from forming a functiona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"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\/927948"}],"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\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928579,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927948\/revisions\/928579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}