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2 Jun 2016, 8:29 am by Patrick Quinlan
  Article 2 of the Constitution gives each state the right to determine how its representatives to the Electoral College are chosen, and different states had used different methods and standards, without objection, for two centuries. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 12:47 pm by JD Hull
Barring a further substantial weakening of the economy, Romney will lose--and lose, in my view, big time, both in popular and electoral college votes. [read post]
23 May 2012, 6:37 am by INFORRM
There are 12 Jurats in Jersey, appointed by an Electoral College and serve until they are 72. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 4:43 am by Marcia Coyle
Besides the Trump subpoena cases, the Justices have yet to rule on the always controversial issue of abortion in a Louisiana case, the Trump Administration's plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Dreamers) program, public funding of religious schools, the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and state actions against "faithless" presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidates they vowed to support in the Electoral… [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 3:44 am by SHG
That was true in 2016, despite Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the Electoral College. [read post]
22 May 2024, 7:00 am by Yaël Eisenstat
A number of platforms have rolled back moderation policies on false claims of electoral fraud, gutted trust and safety teams, and appear to be sleep walking into a rising tide of threats to judges and election officials. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 2:08 pm
The first two involve good-government electoral reform, that I certainly endorse, but says nothing about the anti-democratic electoral college. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 10:11 am by Amy Howe
He was charged, she stressed, with “corruptly obstructing a proceeding before Congress, specifically, Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote,” which used records and documents. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 3:00 am by Scott Bomboy
Four years later, he rode into office by taking the Electoral College vote easily, but the popular vote was very close. [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 12:21 pm
 And because what's a football game without a little presidential politics, Rumpole devotes a little blurb every Sunday to the current electoral college: We have Obama at 243 likely electoral votes,  and McCain at 216, including Florida. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
  When Eisenhower was warned by politicos that checking the Israeli advance might cost him New York’s electoral college votes in the coming election, Eisenhower said he would rather be right than president. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 2:03 am
Yesterday I talked about the need to provide citizens better cues to ensure that reform debates get traction among the electorate. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 4:00 am by Guest Author
  Bijal Shah is an Associate Professor of Law and Provost Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School. [read post]
6 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
With the exception of college-educated women driven to the polls by the Supreme Court’s recent overruling of Roe v. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 9:19 am by Cathy
On the other hand, it is also the best possible choice to have to make, to have one’s electoral cup runneth over with two such excellent choices. [read post]
16 May 2024, 7:15 am by Bryan Caplan
One last political point: Partisan Democrats in safely blue states and partisan Republicans in safely red states both have a strong reason to favor housing deregulation: the electoral college. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 10:20 am
  There is a sense that when the polls close we will be watching history and we all want to be a part of that moment.However, although most of my friends and colleagues are thrilled at the prospect of an Obama presidency and are busy predicting an Electoral College landslide, I cannot bring myself to blindly succumb to peer pressure and join that particular bandwagon. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 4:13 am by SHG
For all the excuses made, it was an attempt at insurrection, not because it was a riot but because its purpose was to prevent the act of Congress that was naively part of the bloodless coup, the counting of the votes of the electoral college. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 7:48 am
Though one might read the original Constitution as protecting the rights of states to decide on their own electorate, that obviously doesn't obtain today, because of a whole host of amendments, including, of course, capacious readings of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]