Search for: "ELECTORAL COLLEGE" Results 521 - 540 of 2,721
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
5 Feb 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  The greatest risk to American democracy in current times is indeed that lies about voter fraud or other asserted “legal irregularities” will enable the Republican presidential candidate in 2024—whether Trump or someone similarly anti-democratic—to steal the election through politicized state election officials who manipulate vote counting, or through Republican-led state legislatures that reject the popular vote in their states and submit alternative slates of… [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Edward B. Foley
§ 2 it is authorized to choose a new manner of appointing electors for the current election and accordingly it can choose direct legislative appointment of electors if it wishes. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 3:06 pm by CAFE
 In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss a judge’s decision to reject a plea deal in the federal hate crimes case against Arbery’s killers, who were already convicted of murder in a Georgia state case.In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss: – Justice Breyer’s retirement and President Biden’s forthcoming nomination of Breyer’s successor;– The reported scheme to subvert the Electoral College… [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 3:06 pm by CAFE
 In this sample from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet and Joyce discuss a judge’s decision to reject a plea deal in the federal hate crimes case against Arbery’s killers, who were already convicted of murder in a Georgia state case.In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss: – Justice Breyer’s retirement and President Biden’s forthcoming nomination of Breyer’s successor;– The reported scheme to subvert the Electoral College… [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 11:26 am by Katherine Pompilio
The changes to the 1887 election law would clarify that the vice president’s role in overseeing the formal counting of the Electoral College vote is ceremonial. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Giuliani Coordinated Plan for Trump Electoral Votes in States Biden Won, Some Electors Balked MSN – Beth Reinhard, Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey, Emma Brown, and Rosalind Helderman (Washington Post) | Published: 1/20/2022 On December 14, 2020, the day of the electoral college vote, Republican electors convened in the capitals of five states that Joe Biden had won. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 8:40 am by DONALD SCARINCI
Facts of the Case On January 6, 2021, a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to prevent a Joint Session of Congress from certifying the electoral college votes designating Joseph R. [read post]
  The fake electors claimed that they were the official state representatives to the Electoral College, and that Trump, not Biden, had won their states. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
Anderson sat down with Ned Foley, a professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and a leading expert in election law. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal DirecTV Says It Will Sever Ties with Far-Right Network One America News MSN – Timothy Bella (Washington Post) | Published: 1/15/2022 DirecTV announced it will sever ties with One America News (OAN) after this year, pulling the conservative news channel from millions of homes. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:04 pm by Elizabeth McElvein, Benjamin Wittes
Circuit’s language about the scope of valid legislative inquiry—that is, activity related to the interruption of the electoral college certification—implicates not only the production of documents by the National Archives but also potential witness testimony. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:49 am by Chuck Rosenberg
I accept the finality of this outcome, which will be ratified next Monday in the Electoral College. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 4:42 am by SHG
They fail to consider that they might lose, even though they can rationalize why federalism and the electoral college make them the majority even when they lose elections. [read post]
” Beginning in December 2020, Rhodes and other Oath Keeper members made plans to travel to Washington, D.C. around Jan. 6, the date of the certification of the Electoral College vote. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 2:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Beginning in late December 2020, via encrypted and private communications applications, Rhodes and various co-conspirators coordinated and planned to travel to Washington, D.C., on or around Jan. 6, 2021, the date of the certification of the electoral college vote, the indictment alleges. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 12:56 pm by Elena Kagan, Alan Z. Rozenshtein
But Brooks, who argued on his own behalf, emphasized that his motivation in speaking at the Jan. 6 rally was not simply to support Republican candidates in future elections, but also to convince his fellow congresspeople to vote against the certification of the electoral college votes. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 1:00 am by Brittany Morrow
John Thune (R-SD), the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, have indicated at least tacit interest in reforming the Electoral Count Act – the 1877 law that lays out the procedures for certifying and casting Electoral College votes. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 11:46 am by Tom Smith
”The president’s address began a commemoration that, instead of showcasing American unity against threats to democracy, only underscored just how riven the country remains a year after rioters armed with hockey sticks, baseball bats, crutches, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bear spray and stolen police batons broke into the Capitol to disrupt the counting of the Electoral College votes ratifying Mr. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But a few will withhold donations to the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, at least through the 2022 midterm election cycle. [read post]