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18 Jan 2021, 9:42 am
And descriptively, certainly some of those who invaded the Capitol to stop the constitutional process of certification of electoral college votes may have been engaged in, or may fall within, the terms of that statute. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 2:55 pm
., in advance of January 6, 2021, to publicly urge people to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote. [read post]
4 May 2008, 4:10 pm
That is because, almost anything that legal theorists would care to talk about is logically possible: it is logically possible that the Constitution will be amended next year to abolish the Electoral College and eliminate the Senate, but no one thinks that these possibilities are even worth discussing in that time frame.Practical Possibility The notion that there are different types of possibility can be made very precise by using the notion of a possible… [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 10:37 am
Further, unlike Washington, who was unanimously elected twice by the electoral college, Jefferson had active political opponents who would report and object to malfeasance. [read post]
12 Aug 2024, 1:19 am
The Court found that Musk had used X to conduct a disinformation campaign about the Brazilian Supreme Court and Superior Electoral Court, exacerbating the risks to the security of the judiciary, and had contributed to the criminal action being investigated by the Supreme Court in various cases. [read post]
15 Sep 2024, 4:52 am
Eduardo Bertoni, CGFoE expert and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law, spoke of the recent developments in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American System of Human Rights: “When I started in 2002 as Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression [of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, IACHR], many people asked me what I do. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 10:55 am
(This op-ed was first published in LAWFARE on March 19, 2020.) [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 12:24 pm
I do think that high college grades and stratospheric LSAT scores do not necessarily mean that someone is especially bright, even in an analytical, logical/verbal way, and that thought is highly antielitest - - and totally contrary to the conventional wisdom. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
With questions about the health of U.S. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:02 pm
(This theory, according to its proponents, would also, because Article II’s Electors Clause also mentions state “legislatures,” enable ordinary elected state legislatures to regulate presidential elections free from state constitutional constraints.) [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 7:45 am
The potential collective benefit of a smarter, more discriminating electorate is enormous. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
” Sackcloth and ashes became the order of the day, as media bigwigs decided that they needed to elevate the supposedly ignored voters who had unexpectedly turned what should have been a rout by Clinton into a non-majority threading of the Electoral College needle by Trump.The ensuing frenzy of mea culpas quickly descended into self-parody. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Obama was, in fact, otherwise extremely aggressive in his deportation efforts, so aggressive in fact that he earned the derisive nickname “deporter-in-chief” by immigration advocates.But Obama did take the humane and sensible step of trying to let the Dreamers know that they were not being targeted, allowing them to continue to make long-term decisions like attending college and graduate school, buying homes, and so on.Because it was Obama who took that action, Republicans… [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:53 am
The lobbying muscle of the sheriffs, buttressed by a tough-on-crime electorate, keeps these harsh sentencing schemes firmly in place. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 5:33 am
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Brazil’s chief electoral authority, ordered the director of the highway police, Silvinei Vasques to stop the operations immediately or face personal fines of nearly $100,000 per hour. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 3:55 pm
” What’s this… a college degree? [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Fortunately, that betrayal of Democrats’ collective soul seems not to be happening.Even so, such a discussion was inevitable because Trump’s Electoral College win was made possible by the narrowest of margins in what had been three reliably blue, formerly industrial states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. [read post]
14 May 2021, 4:00 am
But his unfounded claims shattered his supporters’ trust in the electoral system, laying the foundation for numerous Republican-led bills pushing more restrictive voter rules. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 11:00 pm
The campaign seeks to pair celebrities with grass roots organizations to mobilize and educate young people between the ages of 18 and 29, who are not in college, to register and participate in the electoral process. [read post]
