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15 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
Because I spend my time thinking about policy issues and the ways in which the political and legal systems work (and fail), I have expended a great deal of effort over the last few years fretting—to put it mildly—about the future of the rule of law in the United States and elsewhere.Last month, I decided to try to find reasons for optimism within this grim environment—an environment in which Republicans have made clear that they will allow Donald Trump to get away with seemingly… [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 6:54 pm
Perhaps as we start reflecting on the lessons we should learn from Covid-19 (including the necessity for having a trustworthy president instead of the pathological near sociopath who currently occupies the Oval Office), one of the topics might be reform of the almost literally insane way we conduct presidential selection in this country, beginning with the ludicrous attention given Iowa and New Hampshire and going on to the electoral college. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 1:45 pm
Election: The Supreme Court will soon hear two cases that could upend the entire Electoral College system just months before voters go to the polls. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 5:30 am
* Justice Sotomayor is recusing herself from a Supreme Court case involving the electoral college, but it has nothing to do with President Trump's recent statement about recusals at the high court. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
The clear implication from the interviews and statements from public officials there is that the electorate and the city would approve GEO’s land-use request except for the fact that residents don’t want ICE to be able to effectuate its policies.As I noted in my introduction (and many times elsewhere), state and local governments cannot be forced to lend their personnel or resources to assist the federal government in enforcement of federal laws and policies because of the… [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 6:30 pm
“Sotomayor recuses from one of two Supreme Court cases with consequences for electoral college”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. [read post]
7 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
These kinds of steps are much easier to imagine than reforming the electoral college or coming up with ways of restoring civil society and achieving greater economic equality. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 10:58 am
Democrats only need to flip a net of 38 electoral votes from 2016 in order to win.We note, however, that Joe Biden has the largest electoral college lead of these candidates, which provides a buffer against the possibility that polls incorrectly measure Trump’s support (as was the case in 2016).The graphs below show how several candidates (including Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, who have dropped out of the race) poll compared to Clinton’s 2016 election… [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
Claim that the popular vote was tainted and that his sixth-worst-in-history Electoral College victory margin was a historic landslide. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 6:00 pm
" She will, of course, remain a formidable leader and critical progressive voice, but I will always feel an enormous sense of loss for what could and should have been.I've liked Bernie since he was first elected mayor when I was a senior in college in Burlington, VT. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
More importantly, a number of the legislative proposals that are already on the policy agenda—universal pre-K and free college tuition, paid family and medical leave, expansion of government health insurance, and felon re-enfranchisement—would go a long way to restoring faith in democratic institutions. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
Similar to the election of 1888, the 2016 election was the second election in a short period of time—sixteen years—in which the popular vote winner did not win the Electoral College. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 6:30 am
Tokaji is Associate Dean for Faculty and Ebersold Professor of Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University - Moritz College of Law. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 4:48 pm
" Abraham Lincoln got the White House only because of the Electoral College, having received 39.8% of the popular vote. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 11:45 am
The US Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit on Wednesday upheld Texas’s winner-take-all system for awarding electoral college votes in presidential elections. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
The controversy last week surrounding President Trump’s tweets about the sentencing of Roger Stone, a Trump campaign advisor convicted of lying to Congress, is yet another reminder of two transcendently important—but often misunderstood, or at least vastly underappreciated—aspects of American constitutional design. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
2/17/1801: House of Representatives breaks tie in Electoral College, and selects Thomas Jefferson as President. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 8:00 am
The 53-State Solution By Simon Barnicle, Writer and Attorney Simon Barnicle writes that adding new Democratic states could help bring the United States closer to majority-rule, and could increase pressure to add constitutional amendments to counteract current minority-rule constitutional provisions, like the Electoral College and the equal representation of senators. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 6:40 am
In brief, instead of states choosing the winning slate of presidential electors based on the winner of each state’s popular vote, compacting states (consisting of at least a majority of the Electoral College) agree to choose the winning slate of presidential electors based on the winner of the national popular vote.But there’s a new effort out that attempts to thwart the NPV if the NPV ever goes into effect—by refusing to disclose some statewide… [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 2:47 am
These aren’t mercenaries but self-defined pragmatic progressives who believe Bloomberg has the best chance at an electoral victory against Trump in November. [read post]
