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12 May 2020, 6:12 pm by Howard Bashman
“‘Faithless’ Electors Are Faithful to the Constitution; The Supreme Court should strike down state laws that try to constrain Electoral College voters’ choice”: Law professor Sai Prakash has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal. [read post]
12 May 2020, 1:31 pm by Keith E. Whittington
Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving challenging the authority of the state to control how individual presidential electors cast their ballots when the Electoral College assembles in December. [read post]
12 May 2020, 10:11 am by Marcia Coyle
" And by the time the 12th Amendment was adopted in 1804, creating the current Electoral College, the states add, the role of electors was understood to be “simply to register the will of the” State. [read post]
11 May 2020, 6:57 am by Katie Bart
 Amy Howe of Howe on the Court and Cathy Ruffing of Street Law will lead an interactive discussion with middle school students about the electoral college and the questions presented in these cases. [read post]
10 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Rodger Citron
Rodger Citron is the Associate Dean for Research & Scholarship and Professor of Law at Touro College, Jacob D. [read post]
10 May 2020, 7:56 am by Howard Bashman
“A Colorado Case Before The Supreme Court Could Overhaul The Electoral College Forever”: Allison Sherry of Colorado Public Radio News has this report. [read post]
9 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Lessig’s lead brief for the faithless electors asserts that “The electoral college…. was crafted initially because the Framers did not want an executive dependent directly upon Congress nor upon the state governments. [read post]
8 May 2020, 10:19 am by Vivian Alana Caesar
During the winter of my senior year of college, I volunteered in Ankeny, Iowa with a presidential campaign. [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Cash-Starved Candidates Trade Swanky Cocktail Hours for $5K Zoom Meetings Politico – Elena Schneider and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 5/1/2020 Online fundraising events show that even with coronavirus bearing down, the money machine of electoral politics is still cranking, albeit at a distinctly lower gear and in dramatically different form. [read post]
7 May 2020, 8:16 am by Howard Bashman
“The Real Vote Suppression Threat: The Supreme Court weighs whether Electoral College electors can vote their preference for president rather than the choice of their state. [read post]
7 May 2020, 4:29 am by SHG
And as Sandy Knauer suggests, he can rape as much as he wants and still suffer no electoral consequences. [read post]
6 May 2020, 10:55 am by Howard Bashman
“The Supreme Court weighs whether to make the Electoral College even less democratic; The Court’s ‘faithless electors’ case could turn a few unknown individuals into the most powerful people in the nation”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. [read post]
5 May 2020, 1:39 pm by Amy Howe
2016 Electoral College map Voters in the United States do not directly elect the president and the vice president. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 6:26 am by Kalvis Golde
Topic: Electoral College and presidential elections Audience: middle school The post Event announcement: SCOTUSblog oral argument seminars appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 5:15 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
This is when the loser of the national vote is about to become president through the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 7:08 am by Rebecca Green
That defection happens rarely is an intended feature of Electoral College design. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 9:32 am by Paul Smith and Adav Noti
For generation after generation, the Electoral College voting process has been a mere formality. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:08 am by Rob Natelson
Fifth: The two principal models for the Electoral College were the indirect election systems then prevailing in Scotland (for members of the British Parliament) and in Maryland (for state senators). [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 7:00 am by David Post
And what, exactly, do they do while serving in the “Electoral College”? [read post]