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11 Feb 2020, 7:05 am
Lynk, the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:09 am
DC/Puerto Rico statehood, banning gerrymandering, ending the Electoral College, and ending the filibuster/Expanding and reforming the Supreme Court to curb partisan rulings/Sectoral union bargaining where agreements apply to whole industries, not just individual companies/A carbon tax rebated to taxpayers in cash, plus a quadrupling of research and development funding for clean energy... [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 4:23 am
Electoral College The Electoral College was the result of a compromise by our founding fathers between giving Congress the power to elect the President and resting the power solely with the American people. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 9:58 am
Klein made it clear that the combination of gerrymandering, the allocation of Senate seats and the electoral college would soon leave 70% of America represented by 30% of senators and vice versa, and the electoral college will continue to “elect” presidents who have lost the popular vote. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 11:00 pm
Supreme Court first considered the notion of “faithless electors,” members of the Electoral College who fail to vote for their party’s designated candidate. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
The point here is that in the electoral context, rules of fair play exist to let the people decide which candidate would better serve the national interest. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 6:00 am
Voting should be as easy and convenient as possible, and in many cases it is. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 11:48 am
And, equally "of course," they had the deluded belief that the Electoral College would serve as an effective line of defense against electing a demagogue who might make impeachment a necessity. [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 8:33 pm
In any event, the failure to seize the seat, if available, would certainly anger the base.We would, of course, be far better off if we got rid of the eleven-week hiatus, but that would require also getting rid of the idiotic electoral college, which causes the delay. [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 4:03 am
Electoral college? [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 8:52 pm
Is it the heightened belief that the "people's choice"--at least as mediated through the also idiotic electoral college system--is entitled to extreme deference, even if, by stipulation, polls plus the elected representatives of "the people" have come to agree that the president is in fact unfit (whether or not indictable as a "criminal")? [read post]
The problematics of impeachment (I): The specific problems of Charles Black's take on the presidency
29 Jan 2020, 12:52 pm
" The convention was flailing around at that point trying to figure out for once and for all first how to elect a president--and we got the truly terrible electoral college--and then how to displace one. [read post]
26 Jan 2020, 7:17 am
It is true, of course, that presidents consider domestic politics, including electoral politics, in everything they do. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 8:29 am
These criticisms may recur, as the court plans to hear a case this term that examines the voting rules for members of the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 7:11 am
We should reject calls to destroy the “anti-democratic” Electoral College and Senate. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 7:11 am
We should reject calls to destroy the “anti-democratic” Electoral College and Senate. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 3:49 am
Baca, which ask whether the Constitution forbids states from requiring their presidential electors to follow the state’s popular vote when casting their electoral college ballots, in a post at the NACL Blog. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 6:56 am
(Table for a moment objections to the Electoral College.) [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 10:24 am
“The Supreme Court will decide if ‘faithless electors’ can ignore the will of the people; The Electoral College is an anti-democratic relic; The Court could make it worse”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 3:43 am
” For The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that the court will also “decide whether members of the Electoral College may cast their votes for presidential candidates other than the ones they had pledged to support. [read post]
