Question
John Eastman proposed using this legal theory to overturn the 2020 elections. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this legal theory which holds that the US Constitution grants sole authority over handling elections to state lawmakers. Gerrymandered districts in North Carolina are defended with this theory in the current case Moore v. Harper.
ANSWER: independent state legislature theory [or ISL theory]
[10h] This former Solicitor General under Obama argued against ISL theory in Moore v. Harper. This Georgetown professor defended Nestlé from a 2021 child slave labor lawsuit and was lead counsel for Guantánamo Bay prisoners in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
ANSWER: Neal Katyal [or Neal Kumar Katyal]
[10e] In his concurring opinion in this case, William Rehnquist applied ISL theory to argue that the Florida Supreme Court could not force a recount in the 2000 presidential election.
ANSWER: Bush v. Gore [or Gore v. Bush; or George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr. and Joseph Lieberman, et al.; prompt on Bush or Gore]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Houston A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Penn State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |