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16 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  An openly autocratic bigot threaded the Electoral College needle, with sliver-thin vote margins in a few swing states that were sufficient to make him the president-elect. [read post]
17 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”To be clear, Vance’s factual premise is simply wrong, because the Biden campaign has never said anything like “at all costs” in the non-electoral sense. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 8:41 am by Rick Hasen
The Grand Jury found that over a period of 14 years, a group of people committed blatant voter registration and voting fraud to defeat opponents who challenged the status quo control of electoral politics in the borough. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
Gorman’s poem certainly references those recent moments, such as the calls to undermine electoral integrity and the Capitol Hill Riot, with lines like, “We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it. [read post]
The order states that Smith will oversee “the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 5:01 am by Emily Dai
The inspector general reports that following the announcement by then-President Trump that a planned large gathering would be held at the Capitol to protest Congress confirming the Electoral College votes, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a Request for Assistance (RFA) on Dec. 31 asking for DCNG reinforcement from Jan. 5 through Jan. 6. [read post]
12 Jun 2018, 12:23 pm by Sandy Levinson
Although some (especially presidents themselves) claim that the President is the "tribune of the national people," the even more egregious and indefensible electoral college assures that most often the President is the faithful servant of the particular coalition that put him (so far) into power. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Comparative Constitutional Design, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 5:00 am by JB
I continue to believe that Donald Trump will not win the November presidential election. [read post]
14 Apr 2019, 5:00 am by Guest Blogger
  Black and O’Connor are also examples of Justices who were part of multiple elite circles, in part because of their backgrounds in electoral politics. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 4:42 pm by Camille Fischer
Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, ​hacking just one of these machines could enable an attacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election​. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
 When Jones entered the legal profession, Republicans, relying on Black voters, who made up 37 percent of the state electorate, still contested Democrats for elective office. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
  They took advantage of the peculiarities of the electoral college to elect an antislavery president with less than two-fifths of the popular vote (Donald Trump obtained a much higher percentage of the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 than Abraham Lincoln). [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 3:40 pm by Anna Bower
“The subject matter of that meeting, we believe, was related the certification of electoral college votes for various states, including Georgia,” he says. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 7:08 am by Roger Parloff
Given the singular importance of the specific congressional proceeding that the rioters were disrupting—the counting of the Electoral College vote and the peaceful transfer of power—media cameras were ubiquitous, as were those of freelancers and bystanders. [read post]
27 Jun 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Sections 2 and 3 would constitutionalize the conditions for political control by loyal Republicans, by excluding adult black males denied the right to vote in their states from the basis of representation in the House of Representatives and Electoral College (section 2); and by disabling rebels from eligibility for federal or state office if they had violated their prior oaths to support the Constitution (section 3)—a disability that would functionally extend to any… [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 11:48 am by Sandy Levinson
 And, equally "of course," they had the deluded belief that the Electoral College would serve as an effective line of defense against electing a demagogue who might make impeachment a necessity. [read post]