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25 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
Gorman’s poem certainly references those recent moments, such as the calls to undermine electoral integrity and the Capitol Hill Riot, with lines like, “We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 10:51 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization Symposium on  Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 8:15 am by Tom Smith
After all, a few days after the election, a law professor declared that even questioning the Biden electoral victory was tantamount to being a holocaust denier. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Among its many other problems, the Electoral College makes non-close elections stealable, even when only a few states have narrow outcomes. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:00 am by Simon Lester
In the 2016 election, Trump got beaten pretty handily by Hillary Clinton in the popular vote, but was able to win the electoral college. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am by Daniel J. Hemel
Thus, member of the Electoral College is explicitly listed as a banned office but not a triggering office. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 9:02 pm by Lesley Wexler
He also said in the absence of the commission, he would oppose electors because he “wouldn’t be able to affirm [the electoral votes] were ‘regularly made,’ which is the legal standard. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat and John deVille
Austin Sarat is Associate Provost, Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
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]
18 Jan 2021, 8:15 am by Steve Gottlieb
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15 Jan 2021, 5:50 pm by Florian Mueller
Without the Electoral College, the GOP would already have had to reposition itself on a lot of issues, as they won the popular vote in only one out of the last eight presidential elections, and who knows whether that one exception would even have happened without 9/11.It's obviously hard to strike the right balance between giving everyone, including minorities, fair access to an election and making an election secure. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 2:04 pm by Louise Melling
The FBI has warned of the potential for armed demonstrators targeting legislatures, and extremist groups have made their intentions clear on message boards.Last week we witnessed an insurrection, with white supremacists storming our nation’s capital, some ready to take whatever actions they thought necessary to ensure their leader remained in power, despite decisive Electoral College and popular votes against him. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 8:01 am by Herb Lin, Amy Zegart
Law enforcement planning: How did the Capitol Police, Washington D.C. police, National Guard and other relevant agencies prepare for the protest of the Jan. 6congressional joint session to approve the 2020 electoral college results and the possibility of violence? [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:47 pm by Tom Smith
In revolutionary fashion, they may try to admit new states, pack the Supreme Court, and end the Electoral College — moves designed to emasculate their conservative opposition. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 3:16 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The National Archives and Records Administration has a unique role in the election process: NARA’s Office of the Federal Register administers the Electoral College. [read post]
Furthermore, the Electoral College ratified the victory of President-Elect Joe Biden on December 14, but Hawley and Cruz announced that they would object to the formal certification on January 6. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 3:23 am by Steve Lubet
” As Luttig explained it – and as quoted in Pence’s letter to Congress –  “the only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler and Colleen Murphy
One target was members of Congress, with a particular focus on Democratic politicians, during the process of certifying the presidential electoral results. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Here, I want to challenge Hawley’s proffered reason that the Senate should have heard challenges to the counting of electoral votes. [read post]