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3 Nov 2016, 10:00 am
Together these rulings directly affect more than 5.6 million voters in 12 states that collectively are home to 161 members of the House of Representatives and wield 185 votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 11:10 am
” Few if any argue that the Senate and the electoral college are unconstitutional, even though both have the effect of giving voters in some states far greater influence than those in others. [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 4:35 am
Rosenzweig flagged the Klobuchar-Graham NDAA amendment on protecting electoral cybersecurity infrastructure. [read post]
4 May 2022, 4:00 am
Given the number of appointments they have had (thanks to lucky timing and the undemocratic nature of the Electoral College and the Senate), it's remarkable that it has taken as long as it has for them to finally stand on the brink of success. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 4:00 pm
Trump has been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, to wit, inciting insurrection in his conduct before and on January 6, 2021, by whipping up a false narrative about a stolen election, and then encouraging rioters to disrupt the work of Congress as it counted the votes of the Electoral College. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 1:25 pm
Between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections alone, the ACLU and its affiliates won 15 voting rights victories, protecting more than 5.6 million voters in 12 states that collectively are home to 161 members of the House of Representatives and wield 185 votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 12:30 pm
I won't bother repeating my screeds about the degree to which our Constitution has made its own contribution to getting us into this mess (as was even more true in 1860) It is worth noting that one commonality between then and now is the election of a minority "uncompromising" President (with regard to extending slavery into the territories for Lincoln and, it appears so far at least, everything with regard to the 45th President); in both cases, of course, the electoral… [read post]
27 May 2021, 9:36 am
But we can't wonk our way out of this political moment: What's at stake is nothing less than the soul of the state and arguably, given national implications of Texas' role in the GOP and the electoral college, the future of the American political experiment.Texans of good will: Today, you're living through the American equivalent of the Weimar Republic and history has placed us at the epicenter of far-right-wing ascendance in American politics. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 1:39 pm
They publicly extoll as their model for electoral success and governance none other than Hungary's Victor Orban. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 12:09 pm
Delivering a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell said that the “electoral college has spoken” and congratulated the incoming president. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 12:01 pm
Timothy Edgar asserted that we should brief the members of the Electoral College on the available intelligence on Russian election interference. [read post]
1 Sep 2018, 7:30 am
But under the Constitution, the presidency goes to the person who wins in the Electoral College, and there isn't another go-'round for that until 2020. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 5:50 pm
Without the Electoral College, the GOP would already have had to reposition itself on a lot of issues, as they won the popular vote in only one out of the last eight presidential elections, and who knows whether that one exception would even have happened without 9/11.It's obviously hard to strike the right balance between giving everyone, including minorities, fair access to an election and making an election secure. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 8:52 pm
Is it the heightened belief that the "people's choice"--at least as mediated through the also idiotic electoral college system--is entitled to extreme deference, even if, by stipulation, polls plus the elected representatives of "the people" have come to agree that the president is in fact unfit (whether or not indictable as a "criminal")? [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 1:49 pm
And, by the way, if one agrees with the Houston Chronicle, Meg Whitman, former Senator Humphrey, and lots of other people that he is a true danger to the maintenance of a "Republican Form of Government," then why shouldn't we as lawyers be thinking of all sorts of creative possibilities provided by the electoral college or even the 25th Amendment. [read post]
11 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm
At most, these would-be insurrectionists might have succeeded in delaying the counting of electoral votes for a day or so. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 7:42 am
Abolishing or reforming the electoral college has long been a subject of proposed amendments (as one will soon learn by perusing the database), and this proposal of a random ball drawing may have been meant as a parody of the existing system. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 9:42 am
What happens if the legal system, using its criteria, decides Trump should go to prison at the very moment that the electoral system, using its criteria, decides he should go to the White House? [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 8:21 pm
(I suppose I am doing the same thing insofar as the only conceivable way that the sociopath could be elected is because of the operation of the electoral college in a multi-candidate race). [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 4:43 am
Only if there is proportional representation and no electoral college will the decent views and the votes of persons like yourself have any impact in the South. [read post]
