Editorial: The Supreme Court must not embrace the dangerous ‘independent state legislature’ theory

When the Supreme Court begins its new term Monday, one of the most consequential cases involves not guns, abortion, gay rights or COVID-19 mandates, but the way states determine how legislative lines are drawn and votes are counted. If the conservative supermajority embraces the radical “independent state legislature” theory, it will deal a body blow to the integrity of American elections. Last year, after North Carolina legislators engaged in an extreme partisan gerrymander favoring Republicans, the state’s Supreme Court, citing clear violations of the state constitution, struck down the map….

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