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20 Jan 2020, 10:35 am
“Supreme Court to review two Trump-related cases; Electoral College, health care on docket”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report. [read post]
18 Jan 2020, 10:40 am
Supreme Court takes up presidential Electoral College dispute. [read post]
18 Jan 2020, 7:22 am
With the presidential election of 2020 looming just over the horizon, and given all of the attention, good and bad, that the Electoral College scheme has gotten over the past few years, it is, clearly, a question of some importance. [read post]
18 Jan 2020, 4:45 am
I wrote about what I learned in "Electoral College Reform: Déjà Vu. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 10:08 am
To start, in 2016, he only beat the highly unpopular Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College by winning three key swing states by less than 1%. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 4:05 am
These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future… [read post]
14 Jan 2020, 9:07 am
And a couple of cases involving so-called “faithless electors” who vote in the Electoral College contrary to the popular vote in their state. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 11:05 am
“Supreme Court to discuss same-sex wedding, contraceptives, electoral college, 2nd Amendment and Iran cases”: Devan Cole, Caroline Kelly, Donna Borak, and Ariane de Vogue of CNN have this report. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
One set of precedents that we don’t think counts for much involves the presidential elections of 1800 and 1824, when, commentators have pointed out, the House of Representatives picked the President—because no candidate had garnered a majority of the electoral college—apparently using votes that were not made public. [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
There remains uncertainty about exactly how the Senate will conduct impeachment trial proceedings on the two articles of impeachment for President Trump adopted by the House of Representatives last month. [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 9:06 pm
Antitrust Law and the Future of the NCAA’s Amateurism Rules February 21, 2019 | Bobby Chen Under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) “amateurism” rules, college teams are only allowed to compensate their athletes with scholarships that cover the costs of attending school. [read post]
21 Dec 2019, 4:57 am
Democrats didn’t want to impeach, but once they decided to, Trump’s insistence that his Electoral College victory grants him impunity didn’t work. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 9:30 pm
" Also, Robert Hardaway (University of Denver Sturm College of Law) on "Impeachment and the Electoral College. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
Moreover, because the state’s African American population is not distributed evenly throughout the state but is concentrated in a relatively small number of House districts, the requirement (known as the “Electoral Vote Rule”) that a winning candidate prevail in a majority of House districts across the entire state hurts African Americans (and also Democrats).But even putting aside the claim of invidious racial intent (which we addressed in Part One and which will… [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 12:00 pm
” Breakout sessions will feature LRE scholars discussing women’s rights cases, politics, democracy, and voting equality, as well as the presidential nomination process, Electoral College, and a session on cases currently before the U.S. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 1:25 pm
Between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections alone, the ACLU and its affiliates won 15 voting rights victories, protecting more than 5.6 million voters in 12 states that collectively are home to 161 members of the House of Representatives and wield 185 votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 6:31 am
Naval War College and Naval Postgraduate School ethics professors recently wrote: "The pardons of our war criminals by Trump, and his interference in and disrespect of our own military justice system is unprecedented and should trouble all Americans. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
Relatedly, even putting aside invidious racial intent, plaintiffs assert that the Electoral Vote Rule violates the one-person, one-vote principle the Supreme Court has recognized for legislative elections, insofar as someone could win a majority of state House districts but get far fewer votes than her opponent statewide. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 12:54 pm
According to the complaint, “a motivating purpose of HB 1888 was to disadvantage young and old voters confronted with transportation hurdles by burdening their exercise of the electoral franchise. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
He threaded the most difficult needle imaginable through the Electoral College in 2016 to end up in Washington, and everything that he has done since then could not have been purposefully designed to be more likely to end in his defeat in 2020.After all, Hillary Clinton’s vilification by Republicans and a pliant media in 2016 had resulted in millions of anti-Trump voters either sitting out the election or voting for protest candidates. [read post]
