How John Roberts—Yes, John Roberts—Might Decide Who Won the Election

David Gergen : John Roberts is not your friend after a decade and a half of anti-voter, antidemocracy decisions.

Gergen says the Supreme Court is the heart of Republican political power.

If a tight 2024 election works its way to his court, it could provide the pretext for the GOP supermajority to install Trump , he says.

Frida Ghitis: Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandered maps shows danger of overruling state courts in elections.

She says it's chilling to say state courts don't have free rein; it's not clear what the court might consider transgressive.

Ghitis says Supreme Court could decide in 2020 whether to override state rulings to count votes.

Frida Ghitis: Supreme Court is positioning itself to decide next ideologically driven challenges to our democratic process with no clear standard at all.

She says it's not credible to suppose that it could be trusted for rubber-stamping the critical operations of our democracy to the perpetual minoritarian advantage of Team Red .

Ghitis says the Supreme Court has already shown its willingness to alter process, invent doctrines and predetermine outcomes for its own side.