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27 Feb 2024, 3:51 am by jonathanturley
This was something I was used to hearing from young progressives on college campuses, but not at work. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 4:10 am by jonathanturley
However, he needed 131 electoral votes out of the 261 votes of the college. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 6:15 am by Lawrence Solum
Dennis Rasmussen’s pathbreaking and superb study illuminates the full range of Morris’s thinking on subjects ranging from slavery to the electoral college to the judiciary. [read post]
Whitmer and the defendants claimed that Powell and the Trump team “unreasonably and vexatiously multiplied the proceedings” despite Michigan’s electoral college vote in December 2020 making the suit moot and “knew or should have known that their legal claims were frivolous” while continuing with the lawsuit. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
  That is because almost anything that legal theorists would care to talk about is logically possible: it is logically possible that the Constitution will be amended next year to abolish the Electoral College and eliminate the Senate, but no one thinks that these possibilities are even worth discussing in that time frame.Practical Possibility   The notion that there are different types of possibility can be made very precise by using the notion of a possible world. [read post]
17 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
2/17/1801: House of Representatives breaks tie in Electoral College, and selects Thomas Jefferson as President. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:56 am by Michael C. Dorf
Constitution expressly grants the states the primary role in choosing the President--even to the point that states can, if they so choose in advance, select their Electors for the Electoral College by means other than an election. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arizona – To Avoid Election Crisis, Arizona Lawmakers Try Bipartisanship MSN – Yvonne Wingett Sanchez (Washington Post) | Published: 2/9/2024 Alarmed that Arizona’s 11 electoral votes might not be counted in the process for selecting the next president, Republicans and Democrats in this political battleground state did something rare: they found consensus. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 3:33 pm by Marty Lederman
  Second, the Justices presumably will be careful to preserve, as much as possible, the states’ traditional broad authority to prescribe the means by which their allotted presidential electors are chosen, and the related authority to control the votes that such electors cast for President in the proverbial “electoral college” in December. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 3:05 pm by Marty Lederman
  That the Colorado Supreme Court misconstrued a Colorado statute in a way that impermissibly deviated from what the Colorado legislature prescribed for the “manner” of choosing presidential electors. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 5:34 am by Rick Hasen
The bell tolls for the day of electoral college certification again. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Views expressed do not represent Amherst College. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 1:20 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
After making it to the Super Bowl LIV against the Kansas City Chiefs, the 49ers went on to have a losing record during the 2020 season. 2020 Presidential Election In February 2020, Biden crossed the winning threshold of 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm by Mark Walsh
” Tillman filed an amicus brief in support of Trump with Professor Josh Blackman of South Texas College of Law Houston. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 4:56 am by Beatrice Yahia
Pakistan’s interior ministry said it took the measures after at least 26 people were killed in two blasts in close proximity to the offices of electoral candidates in the Balochistan province, attacks for which the self-styled Islamic state militant group later claimed responsibility. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:45 pm by Josh Blackman
  Clause 2 states that "Each State shall appoint" presidential electors while clause 4 refers to "chusing the Electors. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 1:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Biden might well win the election (even under the absurdly anti-democratic rules that govern current elections, from the Electoral College to Republicans' aggressive -- and depressingly successful -- voter suppression efforts), but that does not mean that he would in fact be able to stay in office. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 1:01 pm by Josh Blackman
Br. at 40 ("The Constitution 'otherwise provide[s]' for the 'appointment' of the President and Vice President by the electoral college, and the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate by Congress. [read post]