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3 Feb 2011, 9:26 am
by P.J. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
And, as suggested, even critics of one or another part of the Constitution—the electoral college, say—did not extend that criticism to the idea of “liberal constitutionalism” itself and to suggest to new countries writing their own constitutions after World War II that the United States Constitution represented the basic template of “constitutionalism” in general. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 9:57 am
Asia-Pacific Trade Deal RCEP Is Signed; Xi Signals Potential Interest in CPTPP On Nov. 15, the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand signed the world’s largest free trade agreement by population. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 6:40 am
Until Tuesday, we had both publicly stated that the Department of Justice had insufficient evidence to indict former President Trump for his conduct on Jan. 6. [read post]
10 May 2019, 5:00 am
In 2018, U.S. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:04 pm
Circuit’s language about the scope of valid legislative inquiry—that is, activity related to the interruption of the electoral college certification—implicates not only the production of documents by the National Archives but also potential witness testimony. [read post]
8 May 2019, 6:30 am
Polarization can’t be adduced as an additional feature of the current disjunctive moment, alongside the breakdown of the Republican order, for it is antithetical to the idea of disjunction, to the scrambling of the electorate and defections of party politicians that we see under disjunctive regimes (think of exodus of Southern Democrats in the lead-up to 1980). [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 6:31 am
Naval War College and Naval Postgraduate School ethics professors recently wrote: "The pardons of our war criminals by Trump, and his interference in and disrespect of our own military justice system is unprecedented and should trouble all Americans. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 10:15 am
Trump prevailed only because of the perverse Electoral College system, which gives disproportionate weight to the less populous states and to rural areas. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:00 am
Trump, though, offers nothing of interest to the constitutional theorist save as a baleful reminder of the failure, contrary to the assurances set out in Federalist 68, that the Electoral College would serve as a guardrail against the election of a terrible demagogue to our highest office. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 10:48 am
Four years ago, despite losing the popular vote by 3 million votes, Donald Trump carried all of those states and won enough electoral votes in the midwest to win the presidency. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 6:30 am
”[1] An influential Virginia judge and a professor of law at the College of William and Mary, St. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
Prosecutors leveled this charge against Miller (who hails from Texas) and Fischer (a police officer from Pennsylvania), as well as Edward Jacob Lang (who hails from the Hudson Valley but was not present at court that day), for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to halt or delay the joint session of Congress and its certification of the Electoral College’s votes. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:40 am
Together, these states are home to more than 154 million Americans and wield 247 votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 6:55 am
The video is embedded in the previous post, along with some comments from last night's open thread. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 1:40 pm
According to reporters’ accounts of what happened on Jan. 6 and congressional testimony by high-ranking FBI officials, the FBI largely did not anticipate that the certification of the Electoral College vote that day might spark violence in Washington, D.C. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am
Notably, Wilson also proposed direct popular election of the President, followed by a less direct electoral college system as a fallback measure only when his initial proposal was coolly received. [read post]
7 Aug 2024, 12:23 pm
For what it might be worth, I am a huge fan of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, but she ruled herself out of the running.A conventional wisdom soon emerged that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was the "obviously right choice," because Pennsylvania is possibly the most important state on the Electoral College map that Harris faces. [read post]
29 Sep 2021, 5:01 am
The two committees had requested these former Justice Department officials’ testimony as part of investigations into “any efforts by President Trump or any DOJ officials to advance unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, challenge the 2020 election results, stop Congress’s count of the Electoral College vote, or overturn President Biden’s certified victory. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
When Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College vote, I assumed that our long national debt-ceiling nightmare was over, because Republicans would not want to put their president in the position of facing a global debt crisis. [read post]
