I want to go right to that point you were making before. If you go to the Elections Clause, it is set up, it seems purposefully, to create Congress as a backstop for the State legislatures, to make sure that Congress could regulate time, place, manner of elections and so on, over the States, if necessary.
Jamie Raskin: “I want to go right to that point you were making before. If you go to the Elections Clause, it is set up, it seems…”
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Raskin emphasizes Congress's role in regulating elections as a safeguard for state legislatures.
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