This Week in Statehouse Action: Courting Disaster edition

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court (before deciding that racism is over and announcing other crap decisions) delivered a huge win for those of us who were fretting about a certain case out of North Carolina – and a win for the foundations of American democracy.

Moore v. Harper is the case that put the Independent State Legislature Doctrine (ISL or ISLD) before the highest court in the land, and given the body’s current conservative supermajority, the fear that this case would go the way many Republicans wanted it to was legitimate.

Thankfully, SCOTUS voted 6-3 to reject the ISLD, and the ramifications for the future of elections in the United States really cannot be overstated (mostly, we all just got an epic reprieve from GOP state lawmakers doing literally whatever they want to make voting harder, gerrymander electoral maps … honestly, just imagine any law that might benefit R…