| | But in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228, 2354 (2022), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] observed in its citation to Baker v. Carr: "Baker v. Carr, 369 U. S. 186, 202, 82 S. Ct. 691, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663 (1962) (clarifying that the 'political question' passage of the minority opinion in Colegrove v. Green, 328 U. S. 549, 66 S. Ct. 1198, 90 L. Ed. 1432 (1946), was not controlling law)." | | But in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228, 2354 (2022), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] observed in its citation to Baker v. Carr: "Baker v. Carr, 369 U. S. 186, 202, 82 S. Ct. 691, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663 (1962) (clarifying that the 'political question' passage of the minority opinion in Colegrove v. Green, 328 U. S. 549, 66 S. Ct. 1198, 90 L. Ed. 1432 (1946), was not controlling law)." |
| | + | Legal scholars, including Prof. Erin Hawley (the wife of Sen. [[Josh Hawley]] (R-MO)), observed that "More recently, however, the Supreme Court has left the door open to a Guarantee Clause challenge, intimating that the justiciability of such a claim must be decided on a case-by-case basis."<ref>https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iv/clauses/42#:~:text=The%20Guarantee%20Clause%20requires%20the,consensus%20on%20what%20it%20means.</ref> |