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Zabawne, że Republikanie przy każdej okazji powtarzają argument o niezależności i suwerenności stanów. Tak długo, dopóki te stany robią co Republikanie uważają za słuszne.

Republikański prokurator generalny Ohio złożył list do SCOTUS nie popierający najnowszego wniosku stanu Teksas, pisząc tam m.in.:

What is more, the relief that Texas seeks would undermine a foundational premise of our federalist system: the idea that the States are sovereigns, free to govern themselves. The federal government has only those powers that the Constitution gives to it. And nothing in the Constitution empowers courts to issue orders affirmatively directing the States how to exercise their constitutional authority. See Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70, 132–33 (1995) (Thomas, J., concurring). The courts have no more business ordering the People’s representatives how to choose electors than they do ordering the People themselves how to choose their dinners.


https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163346/20201210125506698_TX%20v%20PA%20-%20Amicus.PDF

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A tutaj krótka opinia prof. Hasena, jednego z bardziej znanych ekspertów prawa wyborczego.

My view in brief: this is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit. Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors; it could raise these issues in other cases and does not need to go straight to the Supreme Court; it waited too late to sue; the