RSN: FOCUS: How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election
02 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News FOCUS: How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election Barton Gellman, The Atlantic Gellman writes: "The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency." The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency. L ate last month, in one of its final acts of the term, the Supreme Court queued up another potentially precedent-wrecking decision for next year. The Court’s agreement to hear Moore v. Harper , a North Carolina redistricting case, isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering. The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections. To understand the stakes, and the motives of Republicans who brought the case, you need only one strategic fact of political arithmetic. Six swing states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina—are trending blue in presidential ...