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2 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Trump lost the popular vote and, despite his frequent boasts about “easily” winning the Electoral College, barely scraped out a victory thanks to Hillary Clinton’s unpopularity, FBI Director James Comey’s poor judgment, and Russian collaboration with WikiLeaks, possibly abetted by one or more members of the Trump campaign team.But even if one assumes that there is some truth to the claim that Trump is a political genius, that genius does not extend to… [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm
” Tillman filed an amicus brief in support of Trump with Professor Josh Blackman of South Texas College of Law Houston. [read post]
3 May 2022, 7:33 am
We may never know who leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overruling the Supreme Court’s cases finding a constitutional right to abortion, or why they did so. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 1:55 pm
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, about Michigan’s ballot-enacted prohibition on considering race in college admissions. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 4:00 am
In 1981, I started college a few miles outside of Boston. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 5:55 am
Despite President Donald Trump’s public statements to the contrary, the January 6th Select Committee has revealed that Trump was advised by his attorney that Mike Pence did not have the power to reject the Electoral College results certifying Joe Biden’s victory. [read post]
10 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Rodger Citron is the Associate Dean for Research & Scholarship and Professor of Law at Touro College, Jacob D. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 2:00 pm
He was the first vice president of the US by virtue of finishing second in the electoral college to George Washington. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
I also worried that “Trump’s brownshirts [might] heed his call and light the capital ablaze” if his authoritarian allies in Congress failed to block the certification of Electoral College votes from states that Trump falsely claimed had been stolen from him. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 5:50 am
Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from counting the Electoral College ballots that would declare Joe Biden the presidential victor. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 11:51 am
And while a majority of Americans rejected his candidacy, likely because of that conduct, as well as other policy-related reasons, he nevertheless became president through the operation of the Electoral College. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
”Electoral and political history (combined with vice-presidential replacement procedures in the 25th Amendment) have moved the American veep more deeply into the executive branch in many ways, but Brazil makes explicit that the vice president is on—indeed a key member of—the president’s team.#3 Lines of SuccessionAmerica’s Constitution (in Article II) leaves to Congress to specify by law which “officers” shall be in the line of succession to… [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 11:00 pm
The Order designated three additional bodies - the Association of Chief Police Officers, Financial Ombudsman Service and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service - as public authorities for the purposes of the Act.The Order was debated by a Delegated Legislation Committee in the House of Commons. [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
The question before the American electorate is whether to make Trump president, not whether to take away his liberty or even his property. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 6:19 am
MySpace users, for example, skew younger than citizens who attend city commission meetings or watch the network news, making MySpace a better platform for informing college freshmen about the benefits of the meningitis vaccine. [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm
Hindsight is 20-20, of course, but it seems that more could have been made of the need for Congress to consider the need for additional legislation in the areas of governmental ethics and foreign electoral interference given the record of President Trump in these areas.Finally, again with the benefit of hindsight, it seems that a number of the justices were looking for Letter to make a concession that would acknowledge the reasonableness of their concerns about harassment. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 5:30 am
After she can’t vote, she (and others like her) can file a provisional ballot, appeal the decision to the board of electors, hire a lawyer, file a lawsuit, and then litigate it for weeks, months, or years and then maybe, just maybe, her vote will be counted. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 4:25 pm
It is important to remember that advocating for more ‘responsibility’ for platforms also means allowing them more power, noted Martin Moore of King’s College. [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 7:07 am
The fact you advocate the demise of the Electoral College, shows clearly what side you are on, and it's not on the side of the Constitution or the sovereignty demarcations and protections laid out in that document.From: Boyle, FrancisDate: Wed 1/3/2007 2:54 PMTo: Dean Lawrence R. [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 7:15 pm
For despite events such as the 2000 presidential election crisis, the American public and my students do not appear dissatisfied with the specific points Sandy raises about unequal popular representation in the Senate, the operation of the Electoral College, excessive presidential power, life tenure for justices, and the high barrier to constitutional change posed by Article V. (6-7) Sandy provides some evidence that the public is dissatisfied with American politics. (7-9) But… [read post]
