{"id":9006,"date":"2022-06-30T02:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2023-12-25T20:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T01:14:36","slug":"our-rights-and-democracy-are-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9006","title":{"rendered":"Our rights and democracy are at stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The threat of SCOTUS approving the the independent state legislature doctrine is so great that it is absolutely imperative that the filibuster be overturned and federal law protecting our elections be passed NOW!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">(And of course we have to end the filibuster to embed Roe in federal law, too.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">If we wait and Democrats lose the majority in the House and Senate, the 2024 election will be over before it begins. Republican state legislators, including possibly in Pennsylvania, will choose the electors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Our rights and our democracy are at stake.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of SCOTUS approving the the independent state legislature doctrine is so great that it is absolutely imperative that the filibuster be overturned and federal law protecting our elections be passed NOW! (And of course we have to end the filibuster to embed Roe in federal law, too.) If we wait and Democrats lose the majority in the House and Senate, the 2024 election will be over before it begins. Republican state legislators, including possibly in Pennsylvania, will choose the electors. Our rights and our democracy are at stake. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=9006\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":10299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/raisedhands.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9008,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/9008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}