[EL] Well, now we know there are at least four Justices (w/Barrett not yet opining)

[Ilya Shapiro]

I mean, I’m all for putting teeth into the Guarantee Clause.

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Subject: RE: [EL] Well, now we know there are at least four Justices (w/Barrett not yet opining)

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And to know when a state court has exceeded the limits of its state constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court is happy to interpret your state constitution for you.

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Subject: Re: [EL] Well, now we know there are at least four Justices (w/Barrett not yet opining)

To me that reads as supporting the notion that state courts are bound by state constitutions and aren’t free-ranging “justice” commissions with limitless power to rewrite legislation, but I guess ymmv.

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for the notion that legislatures can't be bound by their own state constitutions:

"[T]here is a strong likelihood that the [PA] State Supreme Court decision violates the Federal Constitution. The provisions of the Federal Constitution conferring on state legislatures, not state courts, the authority to make rules governing federal elections would be meaningless if a state court could override the rules adopted by the legislature simply by claiming that a state constitutional provision gave the courts the authority to make whatever rules it thought appropriate for the conduct of a fair election. See Art. I, §4, cl. 1; Art. II, §1, cl. 2."

The dripping contempt for courts' very common, ordinary constitutional adjudication, is palpable:  "simply by claiming"; "make whatever rules it thought appropriate."
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