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22 Jul 2022, 5:09 am
Jamelle Bouie’s new column applauds the bipartisan Senate bill to revise the Electoral Count Act but prefer to eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a national popular vote. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 4:12 am
He may be venal, but he’s not stupid.) that the election is a done deal by the electoral college count, that wouldn’t be a terrible thing. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
Trump Wanted Pence to Reject Electors. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 2:01 am
Several have their origins in the Electoral Count Act, an 1887 law whose vagaries played a central role in efforts by John Eastman and other supporters of former President Trump to keep him in the White House, despite the election results. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 9:05 pm
One bill would reform the Electoral Count Act, an 1887 law that governs the process of counting Electoral College votes, by raising the threshold of members needed to object to a state’s elector from one member of each house to 20 percent of the members of each house. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 9:22 am
DorfMuch of the news coverage of the proposed legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act (ECA) has focused on its provision (Section 15(b)(1)) stating that in the counting of the Electoral College (EC) votes at the January 6 joint session of Congress, the role of the Vice President (technically the President of the Senate) is entirely ministerial. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 6:12 am
Roll Call report includes these quotes from Rick Hasen: ‘“Every step that is taken to try to minimize those risks going forward is a positive thing,” [Hasen] said. [read post]
18 Jul 2022, 6:38 am
First, they showed that after the December 14 Electoral College vote, multiple close aides and family members knew: it was over. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 7:10 am
Fraud, irregularities, and procedural deficiencies formed the basis for challenging the results in five of the six highly contested Electoral College battleground states of Arizona (page 7), Georgia (page 27), Michigan (page 36), Nevada (page 47), and Wisconsin (page 64). [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 6:06 am
Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden. [read post]
9 Jul 2022, 5:27 pm
After all, its national electoral success are based not on the popular vote, but the functional gerrymandering of the Senate, of state Congressional district lines, and of the Electoral College. [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
National/Federal A Trump-Appointed Official Who Gets an Important Vote on Whether Trump Broke Election Laws Spoke at a Texas GOP Event Where He Was Billed as a Part of the ‘Trump Elections Team’ MSN – Madison Hall | Published: 6/30/2022 FEC member Trey Trainor, who was appointed by Donald Trump, spoke at a Republican-sponsored “election integrity” event in Texas in November 2021. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 4:45 pm
This is so because of the confluence of three trends: (1) demographic change and residential segregation, which increasingly have placed more racially diverse Democratic Party voters in cities and suburbs, while rural areas have become more white and Republican; (2) a constitutional structure—particularly the Electoral College, the composition of the Senate, and the use of small, winner-take-all legislative districts—that gives disproportionate representation to rural… [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 6:08 am
Nonetheless, Tilden’s electors met and voted for him on the congressional designated day for Electoral College balloting. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:31 am
” In contrast, he continued, “[t]he demonstrators who entered the Capitol during the Electoral College count were unarmed. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
In other words, if an elected state legislature were to announce today that in 2024 it will pick presidential electors (to the electoral college) itself without regard to what the state voters desire, even if the state constitution provides that electors shall be chosen by the people, there is nothing any other organ of state government—the governor, the courts (as in the North Carolina case), the people themselves—could do about that.As I (and my… [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]
30 Jun 2022, 4:14 pm
Gore and then again in 2020) doesn’t even say what ISL folks (carelessly) suggest it does; the clear text of Article II (“Each state shall appoint, in such Manner as the legislature thereof may direct [presidential electors] . . . . [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 4:00 am
The National Judicial College surveyed judges across the nation on whether the Supreme Court should be held to a higher standard. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 2:22 pm
One of those former Luttig clerks is John Eastman, the Trump supporter and former law school dean who lobbied former Vice President Pence to refuse to accept the electoral college votes for Joe Biden. [read post]
