The Worst Supreme Court Decision Is Yet to Come | Opinion

August 1, 2022 | Tom Rogers | Newsweek

Former Senator Tim Wirth and I wrote a column recently on how a Republican landslide in the House of Representatives races this fall will create a very clear path for Donald Trump to be re-elected president of the United States. Not that I think Donald Trump would win the popular vote, or even achieve an Electoral College victory, but instead, if the majority of the House ends up being Big Lie adherents, a Kevin McCarthy-led House would maneuver through our electoral process loopholes to deliver the presidency to Trump.

While it is heartening to see that a bipartisan group of senators have come forward with a package of amendments to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that would close some of these loopholes, these reforms will not cut off the high probability that cheerleaders for the Big Lie in both houses will still be able to prevail. …

Scarier still, a potentially new path has been opened to allow the Big Lie crowd to steal the next presidential election. This potentially new path is created by our current extremist Supreme Court having recently decided to hear the case of Moore v. Harper. This is a case out of North Carolina related to gerrymandering but puts at issue a key premise of the so-called independent state legislature doctrine. …