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15 Nov 2007, 7:27 am
The Politico offers this report, which begins: "A proposed California ballot initiative affecting Electoral College vote-counting is setting off a proxy war between supporters of two presidential front-runners, Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 2:23 pm
(Or simply consider once more the ability of the "weakened" Bill Clinton to engage in an unauthorized war on Serbia without any genuine national discussion about the constitutional propriety of doing so.)It is so much more reassuring to denounce George Bush as behaving "unconstitutionally" than to address seriously the possibility that the reality is far worse--that he is taking full advantage of the powers in fact granted by our Constitution even to persons with the most… [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 7:41 am
Conversely, if we think that a long standing precedent like Plessy can be overturned or modified on a sufficient showing to a court that it has outlived its usefulness as a settled decision and now imposes very serious injustices, why couldn't we say the same thing of the limitation on Presidential terms, the Presidential veto, the malapportionment of the Senate, the Electoral College, and so on? [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 9:50 pm
Conversely, if we think that a long standing precedent like Plessy can be overturned or modified on a sufficient showing to a court that it has outlived its usefulness as a settled decision and now imposes very serious injustices, why couldn't we say the same thing of the limitation on Presidential terms, the Presidential veto, the malapportionment of the Senate, the Electoral College, and so on? [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 12:57 pm
One is reminded of Sir Lewis Namier's story (I believe his original surname was Bernstein) of coming back to college in England (Oxford or Cambridge, I think) after visiting his home in Mitteleuropa (Austria? [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 9:10 pm
Is the California electoral college measure too popular or perhaps not popular enough?... [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 10:08 pm
The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center has issued this report on the ballot collecting company now working for the California electoral college initiative.... [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 11:04 am
The initiative would ask voters to replace California's winner-take-all system of allocating its 55 electoral college votes with one that parses the votes by Congressional district. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 7:21 am
The Sacramento Bee offers this report on the California electoral college initiative. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 9:36 am
Talk about burying the lede.... [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 7:08 am
The latest on the California electoral college initiative.... [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 10:24 pm
This item on an LA Times political blog raises the question of possible coordination between the Giuliani campaign and the effort to qualify the California electoral college initiative for the ballot. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 11:44 am
Colorado has a total of nine Electoral College votes, compared with about 30 in Red Sox Nation - Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and about half of Connecticut. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 7:21 pm
After spending eight years working my way through college to get an undergraduate degree that my parents could not help pay for, I went to law school, too.I worked hard for it -- as did John Edwards. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 8:25 am
Eliza Newlin Carney's latest Rules of the Game column is up.... [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 2:28 pm
Using the judicial pay raise as cover for a legislative one, given the fact that our raise will, at a minimum, be effective two years prior to that of the Legislature, is a gap in time that far exceeds the institutional memory of the voting electorate. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 10:19 am
Although Electoral College Reform is dead in California, Peter Smith at the Co-Op tries to argue that the initiative to re-allocate electoral votes would have been unconstitutional. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Bradbury's "probationary" status, then certainly that's got to be the case as well with "recess appointments," by which persons are placed on the federal judiciary with decidedly non-life (or even a sufficiently long non-life] tenure to have confidence that they might not be tempted, consciously or subconsciously, to tailor their opinions to the taste of the confirming senators.That the Constitution is read by most people to allow recess appointments to the judiciary is… [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 10:43 am
Bush on Jan. 20, 2005, is that neither would ever have to face the electorate again. [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 6:14 pm
The SF Chronicle offers this report.... [read post]
