When it comes to setting the rules for elections, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, state legislatures are not allowed to ignore the Constitution or evade judicial review. It may not have been the most politically divisive issue in this year's Supreme Court docket—that honor probably goes to the still-yet-to-be- announced review of President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness scheme— but Moore v. Harper was the Court's most potentially seismic case. It raised a fundamental question about the balance of power in election law: do state courts possess the authority to review and overturn state legislatures' decisions about the rules for federal elections?
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