Phill Kline: SCOTUS deciding if 'elected people at the state level' or government can set 'time and manner of elections’

Members of the Supreme Court.

Phill Kline, the director of the Opposite Side Project, discusses the Supreme Court taking up the North Carolina election case on determining of whether the government or the state legislatures get to determine the rules for elections. Kline, a law professor at Liberty University, says that "the elected people at the state level to determine the time place and manner of elections as it is articulated in our Constitution.” Commenting, that "over the past three or four decades, there's been this push,” to allow Ivy League and upper-class of American society "to let them make these decisions.” Saying that the government getting to decide the terms and manners of elections doesn’t "eliminate politics,” but “what it does eliminate is accountability.”

 

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