2020 ELECTION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday in a major election case was bad news for John Eastman — the lawyer aligned with Donald Trump who pushed a novel legal theory in his bid to overturn the 2020 election.
Tuesday’s 6-3 ruling rejected a sweeping version of what has been dubbed the ‘independent state legislature theory,’ which argues that state legislatures have almost unfettered powers to implement election law, free even of the normal legal review carried out by state courts.”
-Lawrence Hurley, “How the Supreme Court made it harder to overturn the 2024 election,” nbcnews.com, June 27, 2023