6 Republicans on the Supreme Court just took up a case for next year that represents a ticking time-bomb under our democracy. This case could give Republican-controlled state legislatures the power to overrule voters in 2024 in exactly the way they tried -- but failed -- to do in 2020.

The Washington Post reports that the Republicans on this Court could use the case to "give state lawmakers free rein to change [election] rules to favor their own party...making it easier for a legislature to disregard the will of its state’s citizens."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last week this Supreme Court "has burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had... they just took the last of it and set a torch to it." Now, by taking this case at this time, they have increased the urgency of getting Congress and the White House to act.

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The Washington Post continues: "Immense power would go to legislative bodies that are themselves undemocratic, many advocates say, because they have been gerrymandered to create partisan districts, virtually ensuring the party-in-power’s candidates cannot be beaten. Republicans control both legislative chambers in 30 states and have been at the forefront of pushing the theory."

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tells the Post: "This phony 'doctrine' is an anti-democratic Republican power grab masquerading as legal theory. It was cooked up in a right-wing legal hothouse by political operatives looking to give state legislatures the power to overturn the will of American voters in future elections."

Trump's 1st Supreme Court nominee -- Justice Gorsuch -- has already written in favor of the theory advanced by this case, writing in a 2020 opinion, "The Constitution provides that state legislatures -- not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials -- bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.”

Ending abortion rights, slashing the federal government's ability to fight climate change, taking the teeth out of Miranda-rights, overturning gun laws, and putting crosshairs on gay marriage and contraception was just this Court's opening salvo -- the air war that precedes their ultimate annihilation of our democracy.

Time is now running out on convincing Congress and the White House to act on reforming the Court.

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