Premier Media Outlets Quote Professor Amar on Elections Decision

Professor Vikram Amar weighed in for the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and Politico on the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27 rejection of a legal theory that would have given state lawmakers virtually unchecked power over national elections. 

“Had this case come out the other way, the elected legislatures could have tried to take away from the people the power to pick electors to the electoral college,” Amar told the Post. 

"This is a very forceful repudiation of the premises of the independent state legislature idea," Amar told Nina Totenberg in one of Amar’s three NPR appearances on June 27 and June 28 related to the decision. 

A leading constitutional law scholar, Amar had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case opposing the theory. 

Amar returned to UC Davis as a distinguished professor of law in 2023 after serving as the dean and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Law since 2015. Directly before that, he was a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs at King Hall, from 2008 to 2015.