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Election 2022: Are We Ready?

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The Independent State Legislature Doctrine

The Trump team challenged many of those administrative changes saying they did not come through the legislature. And it's the legislature that dictates the manner of selecting electors, he says. So therefore, since these changes did not coming through the legislature, they were illegitimate and then the election was also illegitimate. The court said that Trump team would fail even under a broad construction of the electors clause.

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