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12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
The Constitution clearly assigns to state legislatures the nearly plenary power to “appoint” electors; many state legislatures at the outset of the United States simply appointed the electors themselves without the bother of requiring an election at all, though this hasn’t been done since Colorado did in it 1876. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 4:56 pm
Bryson, the state of Louisiana has asked the U.S. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 10:06 am
As the first state in the nation to pass statewide maps this year, Ohio had a promising opportunity to show the country what fairly apportioned electoral district boundaries look like. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 6:29 pm
Update: From the Louisiana exit polls: Blacks were nearly half the Democratic primary electorate and Obama racked up one of his largest margins yet among them. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 9:05 am
After Election Day in 1876, four states, Florida, Oregon, Louisiana, and South Carolina, sent two different slates of electors to Congress to be counted, since there were rival Democratic and Republican factions in those states at the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 6:03 pm
Her first six years of service on the court were in a special seat created pursuant to a federal consent decree designed to remedy longstanding Louisiana racial gerrymandering of judicial electoral districts that had prevented black majority districts from electing a Justice of their choice. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 4:30 am
According to Pete Williams of NBC News, “[t]he court disclosed Tuesday that [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor took herself off a case from Colorado involving a challenge to a state law directing how presidential electors must cast their votes, because of a personal friendship with one of the challengers. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 4:00 am
Handshoe’s blog posts were protected by his right of free speech under the United States and Louisiana Constitutions. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 1:00 pm
LD: The Electoral Count Act was passed in the wake of the disastrous Hayes-Tilden election of 1876, when three states—Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana—submitted conflicting electoral certificates to Congress. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 12:00 am
Those results offered competing slates of electors from the States of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina -- with no mechanism spelled out in the Constitution (or the Twelfth Amendment) for deciding which slate's votes should be counted by Congress. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 8:24 am
Those results offered competing slates of electors from the States of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina -- with no mechanism spelled out in the Constitution (or the Twelfth Amendment) for deciding which slate's votes should be counted by Congress. [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 3:00 am
Campaign Finance National: “How the Republican Convention Created Money Woes in Two Cities” by Annie Karni, Rebecca Ruiz, and Kenneth Vogel (New York Times) for MSN Elections National: “States Can Punish ‘Faithless’ Electors, Supreme Court Rules” by Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney for Politico Alabama: “Supreme Court Blocks Curbside Voting in Alabama” by Kim Chandler for AP News Ethics California: “Real Estate Firm Puts… [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 5:01 am
False Statements about Ballot Measures Fourteen states [Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio (2), South Dakota, Texas, Utah (2), and Wisconsin] have statutes that prohibit false statements about a ballot measure, proposal, referendum, amendment, or petition before the electorate. [* * *] [a.] [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 2:28 pm
” The filings came in the lawsuit that Texas is seeking to file directly in the Supreme Court, a process known as original jurisdiction, attempting to delay the Electoral College vote and prevent the four states from casting their Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 2:00 am
Under Louisiana state law, a comparable offense can be found at La. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 3:59 pm
One of the great paradoxes of the Presidential Election outcome of November 4, 2008, is that the resulting electoral map, with few exceptions, meshes with a map of "Median Family Income" in the United States of America, with States having LOWER median family income voting for McCain and States having HIGHER median family income voting for Obama.MAP of MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME in the USA (2000)(Green=Higher Income, Blue=Lower Income)CNN MAP of 2008… [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 12:30 pm
The Constitution provides presidential electors with the right to vote using their discretion, and states do not have the power to remove an elector or nullify an already-cast vote. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 7:56 am
Gee] concerns a Louisiana law that its opponents say would leave the state with only one doctor in a single clinic authorized to provide abortions. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 9:15 pm
North Carolina Republicans argued that the state’s supreme court had usurped the state legislature’s power by invalidating the Republican-drawn electoral map following the 2020 Census. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 9:11 am
(All states also ban employer retaliation based on how a person voted.) [read post]
