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16 May 2022, 9:01 pm
Because they relentlessly exploited the minoritarian features of our constitutional system—the Senate and the Electoral College—Republicans stand on the brink of rolling back a nearly fifty-year-old precedent that most Americans support. [read post]
12 May 2022, 11:14 am
That is the hard truth.The embedded link in that passage leads to an interactive Electoral College map from www.270towin.com, which reflects changes to electoral votes in light of the 2020 redistricting (Texas, most notably, gaining two votes based on the latest census). [read post]
12 May 2022, 8:58 am
Perhaps the most important inflection point in the immediate lead up to the certification of Electoral College votes came on Dec. 19, 2020 when Trump announced a “wild” protest in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, tweeting “Big protest in DC on January 6th. [read post]
10 May 2022, 6:12 am
” The Arizona and Pennsylvania legislatures proceed to name the Trump presidential electors to represent the states in the Electoral College overriding the choice of the voters in their states, giving Trump the votes he needs to win in the Electoral College, and making Trump, not Biden, president. [read post]
7 May 2022, 12:17 pm
Greene discussed her plans to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by supporting challenges to the certification of Electoral College votes. [read post]
5 May 2022, 9:01 pm
The picture is the same for state lower houses (sometimes called state assemblies, state houses of representatives, etc.) except that the Minnesota lower legislative chamber, like its statewide electorate in the last presidential election, is Blue. [read post]
4 May 2022, 12:11 pm
“Women Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular Vote; Four of the five justices who are prepared to overturn Roe were installed by popular vote–losing presidents; Blame the Electoral College”: Timothy Noah has this essay online at The New Republic. [read post]
4 May 2022, 10:21 am
Brazil has federal and state courts and specialized independent court systems, such as labor, electoral, and military courts. [read post]
4 May 2022, 4:00 am
Given the number of appointments they have had (thanks to lucky timing and the undemocratic nature of the Electoral College and the Senate), it's remarkable that it has taken as long as it has for them to finally stand on the brink of success. [read post]
3 May 2022, 7:33 am
We may never know who leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overruling the Supreme Court’s cases finding a constitutional right to abortion, or why they did so. [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:44 am
Now, we do have the electoral college, so Trump became president despite losing the popular vote, which gave him the opportunity to implement protectionist policies for 4 years, after which he lost the popular vote even more handily, 51.3% to 46.8% (while also co [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:44 am
Now, we do have the electoral college, so Trump became president despite losing the popular vote, which gave him the opportunity to implement protectionist policies for 4 years, after which he lost the popular vote even more handily, 51.3% to 46.8% (while also co [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 6:30 am
For the disjunction between popular voting and presidential electoral success, which arises because of the mal-distribution of the Senate and its carry-forward to the number of votes in the Electoral College, contributes to the present unhappy situation, as does the malapportioned Senate’s role in the confirmation process. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 8:43 am
There, we responded to chatter from the Trumpist right about using the Twelfth to take the election out of the hands of the Electoral College (where Trump's people correctly anticipated he would lose) and kick it to the House of Representatives, where Trump would win by relying on the strange rule in that amendment whereby each state's delegation would receive a single vote. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 8:30 am
Five US presidents have taken office by winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote: Donald J. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Here, I want to explain why no presidential election should ever be thrown to the House (except in the case of an actual tie in the Electoral College) and why Democrats ought to say so. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 8:54 am
After all, proto-Trump perpetual candidate Rick Santorum once responded to President Obama's aspirational statement that we should make college accessible to all of our children by snorting: "What a snob! [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 4:00 pm
President by the Electoral College, Delegates to Judicial Conventions are elected at the Primary Election, and, after the Primary, these chosen Delegates attend Judicial Conventions (usually held in August), where they decide on their party’s nominees for the State Supreme Courts.How the General Public Can Have an Impact on the Selection of Judges.Members of the public are rightfully concerned about ensuring that judges are familiar with, and sensitized to, the unique needs… [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 8:55 am
There was no such exogenous imperative for Sumners’ proposal, but his legislation subserved the cause of “good government” and increased efficiency, transparency, and clarity in the interface between the Electoral College and the Congress. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 6:30 am
Not that left-leaning policies are normatively superior to right-leaning ones (this they take for granted), but that the structure of our polity (the relationship between government and its subjects, the way public power is created and then reigned in) is determined by the choices we make about our political economy—just as it is determined by choices about whether to have a bicameral legislature or an electoral college. [read post]
