NEW MAP SHOWS WI, GA, AZ, OTHER SWING STATES AT HIGH RISK OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE IF SUPREME COURT BACKS INSURRECTIONIST STATE LEGISLATURE THEORY

Take Back the Court Action Fund map and analysis show that if Supreme Court backs bogus right-wing theory, it could effectively steal the 2024 election

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 6) — With the Supreme Court slated to hear oral arguments in Moore v. Harper this Wednesday, Take Back the Court Action Fund released a new interactive map today that shows just how extreme the consequences could be if the right-wing justices side with Republicans in the case: even rigging the presidential election to potentially hand as many as 37 electoral votes to the Republican candidate in 2024.

The new Insurrectionist State Legislature Theory map, available at StopTheSCOTUSCoup.com, illustrates how vulnerable every state’s electoral votes would be to interference by Republican state legislatures if the Court lends legitimacy to the radical so-called “Independent State Legislature Theory” in Moore. Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina revealed themselves as the most vulnerable states, earning ISLT scores of 88 and higher.

“The Supreme Court has opted to consider and potentially legitimize a fringe theory whose only champions are extremists and election deniers — it should really be called the Insurrectionist State Legislature Theory,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, executive director of Take Back the Court Action Fund. “Make no mistake: If the Supreme Court backs this bogus, radical scheme, it could effectively steal the election for Republicans in 2024. We can’t sit back and allow the Supreme Court to continue acting as the Republican Party’s legal department as it gives itself more and more opportunities to suppress voters’ power and even overthrow the will of the American people. We have to expand the Court.”

CHECK OUT THE MAP HERE

The site includes ISLT scores for all 50 states, along with the swing districts and electoral votes in both Nebraska and Maine (Nebraska 2nd and Maine 2nd congressional districts). Clicking a state on the map will bring users to its designated state page where its score is broken down in detail.

ISLT scores were determined by taking into account seven key variables: margin of victory in the 2020 presidential election; partisan control of the state legislature; proportion of Republican control of the state senate and state house; Republican skew of the state senate and state house; and the number of voter suppression or election interference bills introduced by state legislatures in 2021 and 2022. More methodology information is available on the site.

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