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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]
2 Mar 2009, 4:26 am
"-- Austin Sarat, Amherst College"The author's notion of an extended judicial community of judges, academic lawyers, and cause lawyers is a major move forward in the `new institutionalism' in the study of law and courts. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 8:16 pm
IN DEFENSE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 6:03 am
That is because almost anything that legal theorists would care to talk about is logically possible: it is logically possible that the Constitution will be amended next year to abolish the Electoral College and eliminate the Senate, but no one thinks that these possibilities are even worth discussing in that time frame.Practical Possibility The notion that there are different types of possibility can be made very precise by using the notion of a possible… [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 9:00 pm
., Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and Nader--but their views are clearly reflected in succeeding generations of college-educated Americans, particularly the "millennials" who grew up during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. [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]
8 Feb 2009, 7:36 am
Perhaps the electoral college is defensible, though I think not, but whatever its merits may be, recognition of what most of the world or any competent 21st century "democratic theorist" would call "the principle of majority rule" is not one of them. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 3:59 am
While it is true that the President was elected by the people (or, in some cases, by just enough people to win the Electoral College), the Senate should still look closely at the views of the people whom the President appoints, precisely because those appointees were unknown to voters at the time of the election.Moreover, under the current norms, policy differences are often simply hidden under a fig leaf of concern about some non-substantive violation. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 9:53 am
In the alternative, Keyes alleges that: In the absence of such proof, the electoral college having elected Defendant Obama to President elect, the President elect, must be detrmined to have failed to qualify a valid President, whereby the Vice President becomes the Acting President under U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 11:09 am
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this editorial.... [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 7:44 am
Here on C-SPAN. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 10:41 am
As an electorate, let’s become brave enough to make our policy choices upfront, and not disguised as a matter of taxation. [read post]
2 Jan 2009, 8:01 pm
Willmott is the Family Advocacy Coordinator at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and teaches in the Health Education and Community Health Studies Department of City College of San Francisco.As a public health professional who has spent over 10 years advocating for prisoners' rights, I am dismayed to see the health of prisoners once again become a political football.More than two years ago, the federal courts acknowledged what every prisoner in California already knew –… [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]
19 Dec 2008, 8:38 pm
., it really doesn't tilt in a particular ideological direction) features of our system as the electoral college and the hiatus between election and inauguration, wisely emulated by no other country in the entire known universe but defended by American patriots because this is, after all, the way we do (and have done) things from time immemorial (except when we had the good sense to move up Inauguration Day and the date for Congress to reconvene in the 20th… [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 3:37 pm
I would have nailed the electoral college count exactly if it were not for the first-time splitting... [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 2:29 pm
Remember, it’s only this afternoon (pdf) that Barack Obama will officially be president-elect, once the Electoral College votes are cast and tabulated today in state capitals throughout the country. [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]
9 Dec 2008, 8:39 pm
It's important to remember that the "safe harbor" deadline-the date when Secretaries of State can begin constitutionally locking their states' Electoral College votes-is today, December 9th. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 3:45 am
This is done without the possibility of backlash, since the Court hasn't actually used any of its authority (as it could by, say, granting an emergency stay of the Electoral College meeting). [read post]
