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The radical legal theory that could upend the 2024 election

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In  2018 Justice Clarence Thomas "joked" that Leonard Leo was the "number 3 most powerful person in the world."  Leo has raised $1.6 billion for a new political advocacy group, Marble Freedom Trust.  His latest initiative to reshape the American judiciary. is to give state legislatures unfettered authority over federal elections. If adopted by the federal courts, it could throw 2024 and future elections into chaos. This fringe legal argument is being taken very seriously by several of his allies on the Supreme Court. According to reports by ProPublica and the New York Times, the Supreme Court has already gutted many federal voting rights protections. In 2019, Roberts ruled that federal courts cannot do anything about partisan gerrymandering. The ruling means that if the party in control of a state legislature manipulates political maps to enhance its power, federal courts can do nothing.

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