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14 Jun 2018, 9:30 pm
Supreme Court could take to address partisan gerrymandering—the practice of designing electoral districts that favor one political party. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 6:54 am
Casher responded to Zambia’s election challenges with an inspiring message: community leaders must take back the political process by convincing the electorate that Zambia’s leaders are accountable to the people. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 4:38 am
Virginia State Board of Elections, in which the court upheld one of 12 Virginia electoral districts against a racial gerrymandering challenge and sent the remaining 11 back to the district court to reconsider whether race was the predominant factor in drawing the district lines, arguing that what was surprising about the opinion “was the virtually unanimous acclaim from the election law community. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 2:56 pm
., there will be no serious attack on the electoral college until there is a true deadlock and the president is picked, following crude political wheeling and dealing, by a majority of state delegations in the House representing a minority of the US population (and running contrary to the plurality vote of the public). [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 5:01 am
“ ‘In a couple more years we’ll be looking at these [to put] courthouses and state colleges’ and other public facilities, and their funding, in private hands. [read post]
13 Nov 2017, 2:37 pm
This new policy is the latest in a long series of attempts to gut the Affordable Care Act, in order to pander to a small, vocal, and fringe part of the American electorate. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 3:26 am
Plenty of women understood intuitively that a misogynist backlash helped Trump win his Electoral College victory. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 10:42 am
The Post has details on Karzai’s statements and the ongoing electoral crisis in Afghanistan. [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 5:05 am
The now vestigial American electoral college stimulated the emergence of national as opposed to sectional political parties precisely because of the need to win across the national stage, not just win numerical landslides in the North or the South. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
With a high likelihood that this year’s general election could for the first time feature a woman as a major-party nominee, the time is ripe to explore the role of manhood in electoral politics.Precedents in American Presidential PoliticsThe American presidency has long been associated with male virility. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 8:29 am
These criticisms may recur, as the court plans to hear a case this term that examines the voting rules for members of the Electoral College. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 9:07 pm
Other U.S. intelligence officials reported that Russian leaders ordered the disinformation campaign as part of a broader plan to undermine American trust in government institutions and the electoral process. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 1:01 am
The Court, Waldman points out, was able to do this because of a “supermajority” of six very conservative justices, all appointed by Republican presidents, and of whom five were picked by a president who took office after losing the popular vote (but winning in the Electoral College). [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 3:10 am
A special election would have taken place in November 1865, with the Electoral College convening in December 1865, and the presidential inauguration being held on March 4, 1866. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 12:30 am
Wechsler pointed to the Electoral College, to equal suffrage in the Senate, and to the drawing of House districts within states as examples of such safeguards. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 1:17 pm
The numbers of slaves in the states where they were held was a factor in the number of House seats and the number of Electoral College votes allotted to those states, and that fact continued for 81 years, until the 14th Amendment made the freed slaves citizens and declared that they were to be counted as whole persons. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 2:59 pm
(Now if we can just get that fairly right-wing portion of the electorate to apply those same principles and get the feds to stop criminalizing everything under the sun. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 11:29 am
” Several have filed lawsuits and just recently a petition to stop the Electoral College from confirming Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States was rejected by Justice David Souter. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 9:30 pm
In an article for Vox.com, Sarah Kliff wrote that the Maine electorate’s Tuesday vote “to expand Medicaid” to tens of thousands of individuals is “under serious threat. [read post]
