New Yorker - The basic notion is that, because the Elections Clause of the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to administer federal elections, decisions about those elections—whether districts can be egregiously gerrymandered, whether voters need I.D., whether they can vote early or by mail, and so on—can be made by the legislatures alone, unconstrained by state constitutions and unreviewable by state courts. (An even more nightmarish version of the theory could extend a similar logic to the Electors Clause, opening up the possibility that rogue state legislatures could put forward alternate slates of Presidential electors, as some tried to do in 2020.)
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