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31 May 2024, 3:00 am
Trump Electors in Key States Want to Serve Again, Despite Criminal Charges MSN – Amy Gardner and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez (Washington Post) | Published: 5/23/2024 Republican activists in at least three states where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 – nearly all of them under criminal indictment for casting electoral votes for him despite his loss – are poised to reprise their roles as presidential electors this year. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 4:00 am
The email considers whether to ask the courts to rule on the proper interpretation of the Electoral Count Act and potentially risk a court finding that the act binds Vice President Mike Pence from rejecting electors. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
Indeed, in a Friend-of-the-Court brief submitted in the Fisher case, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris weighed in—urging the Supreme Court to “reaffirm its decision that public colleges and universities may consider race as one factor in admissions decisions”—precisely because of the possibility that California would rescind Proposition 209, a prospect that today seems likely.Of course, even if Prop 209 is done away with, not every admissions plan using… [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
For that reason, Democrats could argue (in a way that Republicans have not been able to this century) that they were using the filibuster to overcome the undemocratic nature of the Senate itself, which (because of the deal that needed to be cut to get small states to approve the Constitution) is often controlled by the party that received fewer votes cast for senators nationwide.Granted, the Senate’s undemocratic structure is water under the constitutional bridge, but the fact that the makeup… [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 10:38 am
Third, the Electoral College model in the Constitution is in tension with Congress effectively choosing who is president. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 7:03 am
" This post includes three quite distinct views of the issue and provide a very useful window on the complexities of the issues and the politics of electoral reform in Hong Kong. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 6:21 am
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11 Mar 2022, 6:49 am
The government theory in these cases, including Miller’s, is that the rioters, with “corrupt” intent, stormed the Capitol in an effort to, in the statute’s language, “obstruct[], influence[], or impede[]” the joint session of Congress that was then tasked with counting Electoral College votes, as required under the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable onCan this Constitution be Saved? [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 7:54 pm
Section 3 states: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or… [read post]
5 May 2010, 8:52 am
After the 2008 elections, the teachers’ unions figured the time had come to cash in their electoral successes. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 4:00 am
Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario[v], professional regulators have been required to take into account and balance competing principles. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:00 pm
Here, that benefit would have been an electoral certification that benefited President Trump. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 4:43 am
In her campaign videos and posters, she came out for universal Medicare, a federal jobs guarantee, free college tuition, and the abolition of U.S. [read post]
9 Jun 2022, 4:24 am
The purpose of the public hearings is to show how former President Trump’s false claims of a rigged election spurred some supporters to violence and exposed weaknesses in the Electoral College system. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 12:27 pm
Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia use a winner-take-all system for apportioning their votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
Senate in 2018 (when Draper’s proposal would be sent to DC), or if the President in 2018 is a Democrat, then Draper’s measure might face partisan opposition in the Senate or in the White House (which has the power to veto any such measure), And all of that is to say nothing about how the creation of six Californias might affect the electoral college and partisan presidential politics, an extremely complicated question in its own right. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
Another effort by Republicans is focused on reviving the 2011-2012 effort to rig the Electoral College so that a GOP presidential candidate might lose a statewide popular vote but still win electoral votes from gerrymandered GOP Congressional districts. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 4:35 pm
The court denied former president Trump’s motion to dismiss on the grounds that the tweets leading up to the January 6 rally and the words spoken by the former president reflect an electoral purpose, not speech in furtherance of any official duty, therefor [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:44 am
Now, we do have the electoral college, so Trump became president despite losing the popular vote, which gave him the opportunity to implement protectionist policies for 4 years, after which he lost the popular vote even more handily, 51.3% to 46.8% (while also co [read post]
