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18 Mar 2021, 11:51 am
In contrast, state governors and state courts are overwhelmingly chosen via simple statewide elections, with no electoral college or lifetime appointment. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 2:26 pm
Capitol building in an attempt to stop the counting of Electoral College votes) and commentators increasingly question the stability of American democracy, an internal whistleblower at Facebook, Frances Haugen, came forward to explain how the company has manipulated its algorithms in a way that increases polarization, spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories, and causes an increase in teen suicides and political violence. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 4:02 am
We would certainly do far better as a nation if the Republican candidate acknowledged that, should he lose, he will accept the decision of the American people (or the electoral college, as the case may be). [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 2:18 pm
Defusing that kind of craziness -- which was rather unexpected in a college town -- was no easy task, but the entire session was great. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 11:49 am
Or, as with the electoral college and 2000, would we simply follow Bobby McFerrin's advice "don't worry, be happy"? [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 2:24 am
The young Adams studied in Paris, Amsterdam, Leyden, and the Hague, earning his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1787. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 9:30 am
Criticize the Senate or the electoral college if you want to; but if nominations should follow the popular vote, then you should also blame Justice Souter, whose departures from the GOP platform made him a countermajority of one. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 5:54 pm
The President and the Senate were indirectly elected (via the Electoral College in the case of the President and the state legislatures in the case of the Senate), and the judges and bureaucrats were not elected at all. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Bradbury's "probationary" status, then certainly that's got to be the case as well with "recess appointments," by which persons are placed on the federal judiciary with decidedly non-life (or even a sufficiently long non-life] tenure to have confidence that they might not be tempted, consciously or subconsciously, to tailor their opinions to the taste of the confirming senators.That the Constitution is read by most people to allow recess appointments to the judiciary is… [read post]
28 Nov 2020, 10:53 am
The apportionment memorandum not only illegally excludes immigrants living in the country without authorization from the apportionment count, it uses them as the stalking horses to mask its nakedly political goal – to reduce representation in Congress, and the Electoral College, of all the people living in states with the largest Latino populations. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 3:35 am
It would be more than sufficient to conclude that Trump’s actions on January 6th, to stoke an insurrection to prevent Congress from counting electoral college votes, was so far outside official presidential duties as to be beyond any claim of immunity, wherever the line may be. [read post]
30 May 2019, 9:05 pm
At the request of Republican state officials, the Supreme Court issued a series of orders temporarily pausing lower court rulings that ordered Ohio and Michigan to redraw their electoral district maps due to partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 10:08 am
Office park workers can be just as populist as industrial workers — they are struggling under rising college and health care costs too. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 3:52 am
The electoral college elected Biden to be president, which explains why he’s living in the White House and Trump isn’t. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 3:33 pm
” At President Trump’s urging, the crowd left the Ellipse, headed for the Capitol Building where congressional lawmakers were certifying the 2020 Electoral College votes. [read post]
Travel Ban 3.0 Heads to the Supreme Court: Win or Lose the Battle, the Resistance is Winning the War
23 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
After Trump’s surprise Electoral College victory, some people who did not support him during the campaign held out hope that perhaps his bark would prove worse than his bite, that faced with the task of governing, Trump would abandon demagoguery for statesmanship.The Travel Ban demonstrated that such hopes were in vain. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 6:00 am
Bush, won the Electoral College and the presidency. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 2:26 pm
So does the right to have one's vote for President counted in the Electoral College. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
Debs in 1912 – we “locked him up” Other topics include social Darwinism (remarkably persistent, and especially popular now among the Alt-Right), affirmative action, the Electoral college, Lincoln and his personal growth on the issue of slavery, the uses of the memory of Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, a particularly astute analysis of Barack Obama and his presidency, and September 11 and the anti-Arab, “clash of civilizations” mentality that has gained so… [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 12:06 am
In 1864, New Jersey gave its electoral votes to McClellan (not Lincoln), but Princeton (then College of New Jersey) gave Lincoln an honorary degree after the election. [read post]
