Arizona is a case study for how far some state legislators want to go in taking control of elections if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the independent state legislature theory.
Arizona offers a case study for how far some state legislators want to go in taking control of elections if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the independent state legislature theory. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesArizona state Sen. Paul Boyer over the past year single-handedly blocked scores of bills that would have upended elections in his state.
Numerous conservative legal groups have lined up in support of the plaintiffs arguing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, arguing in part that the dire warnings about threats to democracy areConcern among court scholars has centered on legislatures undermining access to voting and forcing unfair congressional and state legislative maps, though the threat of legislators who would attempt to use it to overturn a federal election looms.
“What’s at stake here are truly the checks and balances our founders laced into the system,” said Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general under President Obama and partner at Hogan Lovells who will argue before the court on Wednesday. “My colleagues would like to take a lot of control over certain aspects of government that we’ve never historically had before,” Boyer told POLITICO in an interview from a charter school nestled beside a red rock mountain where he is decamping to teach Latin and history. In Arizona, Republicans even tried to take away a commission that regulates corporations and energy policy that’s been in the constitution since statehood in 1914, said Boyer.
. Her 2021 bill would have allowed a simple majority of lawmakers in both chambers to revoke the secretary of state’s certification of the winning slate of presidential electors.
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