(10-27-2022, 04:17 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(10-27-2022, 03:23 PM)mikesez Wrote: OK fine, you want to get technical.
In 2015 the Florida Supreme Court ordered that Florida's congressional districts needed to be redrawn.  Governor Scott and the Legislature complied.  Did the Florida Supreme Court have that authority?  In 2022, Governor DeSantis vetoed districts and called a special session for them to be redrawn.  Did he have that authority? Does a state legislature have the power to draw districts as it sees fit without any oversight from any other state official? 

Given your answer to that, note that the power to appoint predidential electors is also granted to "the legislature" of each state. So if we decided that means "the state legislature only with no other state level oversight", it means the same thing in Article 2 as in Article 1. As for federal oversight, that is larger for congressional elections than that for presidential elections.  US congress may regulate the "time and manner" of congressional elections.  But only the "time" of Presidential elections.  This may seem far fetched to you.  The author of the article says it would be "suicidal" for a state legislature to make such a decision.  But would it? Look at Wisconsin.  They have a Democrat as Governor, but their state legislature has nearly enough republican members to override his veto.  Obviously the democrats are packed into fewer districts.  Would it actually be "suicidal" for Wisconsin's state legislature to declare for the republican presidential candidate in 2024? Would enough Republicans be upset at such a thing to actually hold them accountable? Would you?

You do know you aren’t obligated to justify everything Hillary pulls out of her [BLEEP] to whip up the masses. She’s a bitter election denier who knows her entitlement is fading fast so she’s slinging mud against the wall to see what sticks. It’s a far fetched conspiracy theory that would get her banned from Twitter if her political affiliation were not democrat.

Broken clocks are still right twice a day.  And even if she's exagerrating, there is something to this.  Refer to the Moore v Harper case before Scotus.

1) Did the FL Supreme Court have the authority to issue the orders they issued in 2015?
2) Did Governor DeSantis have the authority to veto districts this year?
3) Does the Wisconsin state legislature have the authority to simply declare, today, that the republican presidential candidate will get their electoral votes in 2024? Would they be able to do that without their governor's signature? Refer to your answers to (1) and (2).
4) if they did, is there any realistic chance that the voters would punish them, given how the districts are drawn, wouldn't they keep their majority in any plausible scenario?

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