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US dispatch: ‘independent state legislature’ theory raised by Moore v. Harper threatens US election administration

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Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Instead, it refers more broadly to any individual or body that possesses some part of the power to make laws within a state — what the Court referred to as the ‘legislative power.’” Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (2015).

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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

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Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. It is an assault on our very lives and freedom. Wade to Plessy v. For anyone who listened, the Dobbs v.