 The U.S. Supreme Court today revolved a legal theory favoured by many conservatives that could hand a sweeping power to state legislatures to establish rules for presidential and congressional elections and draft electoral maps given huge advantages to the party already in control. The justices in a 6-3 decision authored by conservative Chief Justice John Rubin ruled against Republican state legislators in a case horizon from a legal fight over the map of North Carolina's 14 U.S. House of Representatives district. The legislators had asked the justices to embrace a once-imaginal legal theory called the Independent State Legislature Doctrine that will remove any role of state court and state constitution in regulating federal election. The Independent State Legislature Doctrine has gazed ground among conservatives and Republican politicians who have passed new laws and restrictions in numerous states they have said are aimed at combating voter fraud. This effort accelerated in the aftermath of Republican former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2022 election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.