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5 Oct 2010, 7:58 am
The "Great Compromise" that brought us the Senate was not so evil as the other "Great Compromise" that entrenched the slavocracy by offering them a bonus in the House of Representatives (and the electoral college) thanks to the 3/5 Compromise, but it is, at the end of the day, no more defensible. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 10:43 am
Bush on Jan. 20, 2005, is that neither would ever have to face the electorate again. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:18 pm
In other words, their problems will be more like 98% of the American electorate, albeit still very much at the high end. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 11:00 am
Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. [read post]
31 May 2019, 8:28 am
The resulting undercount will cost states like Arizona, California, Florida, and New York a seat in Congress, votes in the Electoral College, and billions in federal funding. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 5:26 pm
Obama), the decision as to whether or not to count the provisional ballots that were cast during these extended hours in the Denver polling places will determine both which presidential candidate receives Colorado's votes in the Electoral College and thereby wins the presidential election.This special moot court drew together an all-star cast. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:01 pm
Organizers were Ambassador Derek Shearer, Occidental College, and Geoffrey Cowan, Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, University of Southern California. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 1:16 pm
Why shouldn't Americans of all political pesuasions call on their so-called leaders to support a new 28th Amendment that would address at least this particular problem, even if, contrary to my own wishes, it maintained silence on inauguration day, the electoral college, and how to reconstitute a government following a catastrophic attack? [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 2:43 am
In the end, although he admitted that Laws LJ may be right when he stated that “a gradual reordering of our constitutional priorities [may] bring alive the nascent idea that a democratic legislature cannot be above the law”, he argued that we are not there yet, and that only a written constitution driven by the electorate could limit Parliamentary sovereignty. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 11:20 am
While Jackson did not attend an undergraduate college, he did study law at Albany Law School in New York. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 3:43 am
” For The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that the court will also “decide whether members of the Electoral College may cast their votes for presidential candidates other than the ones they had pledged to support. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 5:31 am
On Monday, a federal judge in Michigan heard motions to sanction Powell and others involved in one of the many lawsuits demanding that Electoral College votes be handed over to Trump. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 5:53 am
This can hardly be in question for an attack on the seat of federal government, against the two houses of the legislative branch meeting in a joint session to count the Electoral College ballots that determine the presidency. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
Relatedly, even putting aside invidious racial intent, plaintiffs assert that the Electoral Vote Rule violates the one-person, one-vote principle the Supreme Court has recognized for legislative elections, insofar as someone could win a majority of state House districts but get far fewer votes than her opponent statewide. [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm
People are talking (and fretting) a lot these days about the advanced age of candidates for federal office. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 9:00 pm
Similarly, Article II, section 1 provides (as to the selection of presidential electors) that “each state shall appoint, in a manner the legislature thereof may direct,” a set of electors to represent the people of that state.ISL theory has two big components. [read post]
16 Sep 2023, 2:47 pm
That of the president, of course, is provided for in the constitutional provisions under which he is chosen by the electoral college. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:00 pm
And, of course, a majority of the California electorate can in any event amend the state constitution relatively easily to change the recall procedures if it so desires. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 1:51 pm
” The event will be a practical discussion between public and private sector figures of how to combat foreign influence in the American electoral process. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:01 pm
” Armed standoffs and brawls in Washington and other major cities led to mass arrests, and individual members of the Electoral College received death threats. [read post]
