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6 Mar 2019, 7:18 am
Through a combination of luck, the Electoral College, and what Professors Joseph Fishkin and David Pozen call “asymmetrical constitutional hardball,” Republican presidents have named 14 of 18 justices in the last 50 years, despite losing the popular vote in a majority of presidential elections during that period. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 2:59 am
Mike Lee on whether criticism of judicial nominees at hearings based on their religious views oversteps Constitution’s Religious Test Clause [Mark Tapscott, Epoch Times; my 2017 post at Secular Right] Colorado may become 13th state to enact National Popular Vote interstate compact, an attempted workaround of the Electoral College. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 12:01 am
The Suffragist, Saturday, June 21, 1919, image via Bryn Mawr College Library [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 11:00 am
According to the Court, the only weighting of votes sanctioned by the Constitution concerns matters of representation, such as an allocation of Senators irrespective of population and the use of the electoral college in the choice of a President. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 7:53 am
Given a Republican incumbent who has never exceeded 50 percent in Gallup's approval ratings poll and who won the presidency thanks to a dysfunctional electoral college, the party is nevertheless determined to give Donald Trump a fair shot at re-election by sabotaging itself....Yes, yes, I know, it's perfectly predictable, the point you're going to make. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 5:29 am
[said] “I don’t want to wake up the day after the election in 2020 and win the popular vote by 4.5 million and lose the Electoral College. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
”This means, in particular, that if British voters wanted to leave the EU because they were scared of social changes that disrupt their lives, and because they cannot see how globalization has helped them—indeed, that their economic lives seem to have become ever more precarious over the past generation of increasing international connectedness—then we need to understand that they made a rational decision, even if we think they were wrong.Similarly, the now mythic working-class… [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 8:01 am
The bill, which passed the Senate on Feb. 21, would also prohibit New Jersey’s Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who failed to file income tax returns. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 6:11 am
The bill, which is up for a vote in the full Senate tomorrow, Feb. 21, also expressly prohibits New Jersey’s Electoral College electors from voting for candidates who failed to file income tax returns. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 11:20 am
New York said in its brief:The enumeration affects the apportionment of representatives to Congress among the states, the allocation of electors to the electoral college, the division of congressional districts within each state, the apportionment of state and local legislative seats, and the distribution of hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funding....For at least the last forty years, the [Census] bureau has vigorously opposed adding any such question based on… [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 5:42 am
Speaking of peril, among the goals the sponsors want to achieve through government action are: Universal health care Universal basic income Right to affordable housing Restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act Revoking corporate personhood Abolishing the Electoral College Repealing the Patriot Act Re-establishing strong labor unions Breaking up too-big-to-fail banks Relieving debt for students and homeowners Reducing military funding Overhauling the military-industrial… [read post]
9 Feb 2019, 2:02 am
During the Electoral College voting, 23 faithless electors refused to vote for Johnson. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 12:53 pm
Moritz College of Law. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 3:50 pm
So far, 12 states with a total of 172 electoral votes have already joined the compact. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
This post summarizes a full-text article with the same title on the SSRN, and refers to Fasken InHouse. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 3:26 am
Plenty of women understood intuitively that a misogynist backlash helped Trump win his Electoral College victory. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 10:42 am
“Electoral College debate heads to Washington’s Supreme Court; Three Washington Democrats will explain Tuesday to the state Supreme Court why they voted against their party’s presidential nominee in the 2016 election”: Paige Browning of KUOW Radio in Seattle has this report. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 1:15 pm
For one, it’s used to apportion representation in Congress, draw congressional and state legislative districts, and allocate votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 12:23 pm
They had also long ignored the strange and outdated institutions of American democracy that call out for reform—like the electoral college, which has now cost the Democratic Party two elections in which Republicans won with the minority of the popular vote. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 12:23 pm
They had also long ignored the strange and outdated institutions of American democracy that call out for reform—like the electoral college, which has now cost the Democratic Party two elections in which Republicans won with the minority of the popular vote. [read post]
