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101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Independent State Legislative Doctrine

"When they have gotten the facts indisputably wrong, demonstrably erroneous, and then they don't go back and fix it, it's a weakness in the decision," he said. "I filed a brief in that case going through some of the more repellent of the amici who had turned up to argue for the independent state legislature doctrine" He added: "The court should be cleaning that mess up and getting these proper disclosures out itself"

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