{"id":22658,"date":"2022-10-10T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=22658"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:02:24","slug":"the-most-terrifying-case-of-all-is-about-to-be-heard-by-the-us-supreme-court-steven-donziger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=22658","title":{"rendered":"The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the court upholds the rogue \u2018Independent State Legislature\u2019 theory, it would put the US squarely on the path to authoritarianism<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/oct\/06\/the-most-terrifying-case-of-all-is-about-to-be-heard-by-the-us-supreme-court\">The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;While many are focused on the January 6 proceedings, <em><strong>the real coup has been going on quietly in the supreme court<\/strong><\/em> without a single shot being fired. As the judicial branch is set to deliberate a case that could drastically weaken the other branches of government, never has it been more clear that it is time to rein in the power of our least democratic institution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the court upholds the rogue \u2018Independent State Legislature\u2019 theory, it would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[58,945,57],"class_list":["post-22658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-politics","tag-rwnj","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}