The Latest Breaking News from Brett Kavanaugh

After overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the court continued to push American law to the right.

The ‘independent state legislature’ theory was a terrifying threat to voting rights and never should have made it this far

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court firmly rejected the so-called independent state legislature theory. This bizarre theory would have allowed renegade legislators to violate their state constitutions in setting rules for federal elections — allowing them to hijack elections for U.S. Congress and even the presidency.