Democrats need to chill out about independent state legislature theory

By Fred Lucas

Published November 4, 2022 10:00am ET

Democrats need to chill out about independent state legislature theory — Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should perhaps take a civics class, stop worrying, and learn to love the “independent state legislature theory.” State legislatures, by whatever name one wants to assign, have always had the authority to seize control over naming presidential electors but haven’t, and won’t, because to do so would be political suicide. […]

Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should perhaps take a civics class, stop worrying, and learn to love the “independent state legislature theory.”

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