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How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy

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Letter from North Carolina
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
by Andrew Marantz

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?

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