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4 Mar 2024, 12:47 pm
Section 3 provides:“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Con-gress, or elector of President and Vice President, orhold any office, civil or military, under the UnitedStates, or under any State, who, having previouslytaken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officerof the United States, or as a member of any State leg-islature, or as an executive or judicial officer of anyState, to support the Constitution of the United States,shall have engaged in insurrection or… [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 8:54 am
Anderson (and the unanimous consensus of the Supreme Court): Because federal officers “‘owe their existence and functions to the united voice of the whole,… Continue reading The post Fourteenth Amendment federalism over Electoral College federalism in Trump v. [read post]
The Recalibration of Colonel Brock: D.C. Circuit Ruling for J6 Rioter Could Impact Hundreds of Cases
3 Mar 2024, 4:01 am
Circuit found, “Congress’s certification of electoral college votes does not fit the ‘administration of justice’ mold. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:38 pm
” The court said that the certification of electoral votes “did not fit the administration of justice [enhancements] mold” and that the process of the electoral college at large did not resemble the judicial investigation and determinations of individual rights that tend to characterize the “administration of justice. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 12:30 pm
That language covers interfering with judicial, quasi-judicial, and adjunct investigative proceedings—not Congress's certifying electoral-college votes. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:57 am
The top two vote getters in the Electoral College became president and vice president. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 1:49 pm
I co-authored a column with Professors Dorf and Tribe in September 2020 debunking the conventional wisdom that the Twelfth Amendment requires the President to be selected by the House of Representatives if neither candidate has 270 Electoral College votes. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 10:32 am
Building on yesterday's post about the new article on Reconstruction and the Electoral College, here is the background. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 6:05 am
AMLO did not have the two-thirds majority needed in Mexico’s Congress to amend the Constitution, but his party held a majority and passed a slighter version of the legislation that still would have severely compromised the National Electoral Institute, the country’s competent, independent election oversight body. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 6:05 pm
I want to draw attention to an interesting new article in The Journal of the Civil War Era entitled "Reconstruction, Racial Terror, and the Electoral College. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 10:05 am
Their power depends on the Electoral College, electoral shenanigans like gerrymandering after the 2010 census, and a bought Court that won’t touch their anti-democratic games. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 6:37 am
This was something I was used to hearing from young progressives on college campuses, but not at work.... [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 3:51 am
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
However, he needed 131 electoral votes out of the 261 votes of the college. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 6:15 am
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]
21 Feb 2024, 10:25 am
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
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
2/17/1801: House of Representatives breaks tie in Electoral College, and selects Thomas Jefferson as President. [read post]
SCOTUS Ducking the Trump Eligibility Question Now will Pressure the Court to Rule in his Favor Later
16 Feb 2024, 7:56 am
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
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]
