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30 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
House of Representatives" filed in December 2020 in support of the original jurisdiction case brought by Texas asking the Supreme Court to block the certification of Electoral College votes in various defendant states that Biden won.Texas filed its original jurisdiction action on December 7, 2020. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The filing was one of four made by the special counsel’s office on a range of legal issues in preparation for Trump’s planned trial on charges he conspired to obstruct Joe Biden’s electoral victory. [read post]
26 Oct 2023, 6:23 pm by Garrett West
§ 1512(c)(2), concluding that the defendant “corruptly” obstructed Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote. [read post]
26 Oct 2023, 11:02 am by Dennis Aftergut
” In October 2022, the New York Times dubbed Johnson “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on January 6, 2021.Weeks after the election, he amplified the debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems machines switched votes from Trump to Biden using a program that Hugo Chavez had demanded.That’s the false theory that cost Fox $787 million for promulgating it and helped secure last week’s guilty plea in Georgia from… [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 7:22 am by Rick Hasen
Trump’s ploys to overturn his defeat, the objections to the Electoral College results by so many House… Continue reading The post The “most important architect” of Trump’s Bogus Electoral College Objections Poised to Be Next Speaker of the House, and Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About It appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
To defeat Trump, it does not suffice to win more electoral college votes than Trump. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 7:41 am by Kate Huddleston
In September 2021, as many Haitian migrants crossed into the Texas town of Del Rio, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick claimed that Democrats were permitting migrants at the U.S. [read post]
23 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Suppose that Chesebro or Eastman had told Trump that Vice President Pence had the right to reject certified Electoral College votes from any state in which Pence unilaterally decided that the "Democrat governor of the state is a woke socialist, so we should have a do-over supervised by the US military. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm by Jon May
What if 88 million Americans vote for Trump as a write-in candidate, and based upon those votes, Trump would win a majority of the electors to the Electoral College? [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 12:06 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  I doubt that I even knew that Boston College and Villanova -- which I would have heard about because of college sports -- were Catholic. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 7:57 am by Rick Hasen
Matthew Seligman at Just Security: his report analyzes the legal propriety of multiple slates of elector-nominees casting ballots purporting to be their state’s votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 2:36 pm by Matthew A. Seligman
First, the report provides a background on the legal framework governing the Electoral College. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 7:40 am by Stephen E. Sachs
" Cheney, who re-registered in July 2000, could have changed his residence any time before the electoral college assembled in December. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 1:13 pm
 Pix credit hereIf people are not able to settle in our countries, and start to think of themselves as British, American, French, or German, then something is going badly wrong. [read post]
30 Sep 2023, 3:10 am
Your friends in Hollywood were cutting ads telling the Electoral College to vote against Trump... because the election was stolen. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
 As Justice Scalia explained for the White majority, “like most other philosophical generalities, [general statements of judicial philosophy] ha[ve] little meaningful content for the electorate unless [they are] exemplified by application to a particular issue of construction likely to come before a court—for example, whether a particular statute runs afoul of any provision of the Constitution. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 6:53 pm by Rick Hasen
AJC: Three Republicans who cast Electoral College votes for Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election were acting as federal officers and doing what the law allowed, defense lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday. [read post]
16 Sep 2023, 2:47 pm by Ilya Somin
That of the president, of course, is provided for in the constitutional provisions under which he is chosen by the electoral college. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 4:24 am by Michael C. Dorf
Hence, we wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe explaining that Eastman had totally distorted our argument.Our 2020 Verdict column was devoted to showing that a great many people were misreading the plain text of the Constitution when they asserted that if neither candidate received 270 or more Electoral College votes, the House of Representatives would choose a President. [read post]