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20 Mar 2019, 9:07 am by Kent Scheidegger
Reid Epstein and Ken Thomas report for the WSJ:A few candidates are embracing ideas long seen as on the edge of liberal politics: abolishing the Electoral College and adding up to a half-dozen justices to the Supreme Court.Given that it only takes 13 states to block a constitutional amendment and a lot more than 13 would have their influence diminished by abolishing the Electoral College, it's pretty safe to say that one is a non-starter. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 9:51 am by Jackie McDermott
Much of the discussion focused on Article II, Section 1—the clause that originally laid out the Electoral College. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 4:27 am by SHG
Both Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment say that the votes of the Electoral College are to be opened by the “president of the Senate,” meaning the vice president. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 9:18 pm by Old Fox
He is a graduate of Harvard College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 9:30 pm by ernst
" Also, Robert Hardaway (University of Denver Sturm College of Law) on "Impeachment and the Electoral College. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 7:29 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
All Oregonians deserve fair access to the high quality and affordable educational opportunities provided by Oregon's colleges and universities. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 11:18 am by David Friedman
” So the polling got the less inhibited white non-college-educated Trump voters right, but the graduates very wrong: “The exit polls show that Trump ran even among white college graduates 49-49, and even had an edge among white female graduates of 50-49! [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 2:04 pm by Ilya Somin
Given how the electoral college worked by the 1860s and the ability of many ex-Confederates to become electors, it is implausible to assume that the president was excluded from Section 3 on the theory that electoral college would prevent ex-insurrectionists from getting to the White House. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 6:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's a notable excerpt describing their findings:“We found that most of the areas that gain additional political clout from prison gerrymandering on the state level reject the prison counts when they draw local districts,” said Peter Wagner, executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative, which he founded as a student at Western New England College School of Law more than a decade ago. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 5:58 am by Steve Lubet
 If the anti-Lincoln votes had been aggregated, in other words, would that have been enough to tip the electoral college? [read post]
” The court said that the certification of electoral votes “did not fit the administration of justice [enhancements] mold” and that the process of the electoral college at large did not resemble the judicial investigation and determinations of individual rights that tend to characterize the “administration of justice. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 8:41 am by Gerard Magliocca
 This meant that if Bryan had won, no vice-presidental candidate would have received a majority in the Electoral College. [read post]
The committee also discovered a document signed by Ward, indicating that Ward would have served as an elector for Trump in the Electoral College, one of the final steps of the US electoral process, even if Trump lost the election in Arizona. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 7:11 am by Kalvis Golde
At the Los Angeles Times, David Savage suggests that the Supreme Court may grapple with the Electoral College this term, as two groups have promised to appeal a decision asking whether Colorado can “require [its] appointed electors to cast ballots for the candidate favored by a majority of the state’s voters,” or whether “electors may instead choose whomever they wish. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 9:31 am by Whitney Hodges and Talya Gulezyan
Defeat of Prop. 21 comes on the heels of a “No” vote on Proposition 10, a nearly identical measure put forward to state electorate in 2018. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 2:26 pm by NCC Staff
Hasen lays out a series of reforms, such as states passing laws to bar their legislatures from sending rival slates of electors to the Electoral College, to secure our elections against nefarious domestic actors who seek to overturn the results of democratic elections. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 9:26 pm by Josh Blackman
 I'm sure others have already gamed out what happens in the electoral college if the President dies before or after election day. [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 4:01 am by jonathanturley
Circuit found, “Congress’s certification of electoral college votes does not fit the ‘administration of justice’ mold. [read post]