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3 Oct 2010, 11:45 am
Ironically, the rise of political parties, along with the Twelfth Amendment, enabled the Electoral College to successfully pick the president without congressional involvement. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
But [in] 1858, Lincoln didn’t say [that the] biggest issue is land grant colleges. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 10:48 am
Rather than running through the full list of ways in which the Republicans could subvert future elections -- a menu that I have discussed before and that includes partisan takeovers of vote-counting, the nutty "independent state legislature" gambit, legislation (even absent ISL) in Republican-controlled states to set aside the popular vote where necessary, and so on -- I focus only on the problem of the January 6 joint session of Congress to certify the results of the… [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 5:17 am
Many Americans would prefer to vote for the President directly rather than through the constitutionally required electoral college. [read post]
9 Jan 2021, 11:02 pm
In this post, I want to draw out some logical consequences of the Democrats having prevailed in the face of the multiple challenges to their majority in the Electoral College. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 8:52 am
However, relics of the Jim Crow era persist in our legal and electoral systems. [read post]
9 Jan 2021, 11:02 pm
In this post, I want to draw out some logical consequences of the Democrats having prevailed in the face of the multiple challenges to their majority in the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 11:18 am
The Electoral College exists; the Constitution gives state governments the power to choose electors in utterly non-democratic ways; the Supreme Court has made it clear that Republicans can suppress votes and gerrymander at will; the Court might go even further and endorse the so-called Independent State Legislature theory to cut Democratic governors out of the process; and so on. [read post]
2 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
Indeed, just as Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment sought to restructure the House and Electoral College to advance Republican interests, the Fifteenth Amendment also did so by changing the electorate. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Now that one U.S. [read post]
12 May 2023, 9:05 am
Eastman admitted, in front of the president, that both options violated the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the statute that sets forth the process for counting and disputing electoral votes during the joint session. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
His answer is not an elegant conceptual synthesis, but instead a suggestion that perhaps in the long run, a delegitimization of the electoral college might lead to our finding some better way of electing a president. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 1:22 pm
Legal news coverage was dominated this week by the Supreme Court Shuette decision, which upheld Michigan’s affirmative action ban for college admissions. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 9:41 am
You may know me from my famed rapport with college students or my hilarious masturbation jokes during public proceedings. [read post]
26 May 2020, 3:38 am
Baca, constitutional challenges to “faithless elector” laws that require presidential electors to follow the state’s popular vote when casting their electoral college ballots. [read post]
6 Nov 2023, 7:48 am
Sabato shows them with a significant electoral college edge, needing only a quarter of the toss-up electoral votes to win. [read post]
24 Oct 2012, 8:04 pm
But there is one significant risk–if Obama’s ground game in the swing states results in a very favorable electorate in those states, but Romney wins the overall popular vote by a percentage point or two, it could be that a state like Pennsylvania, where many fewer resources have been invested, unexpectedly swings Republican, as Michael Barone suggests is possible here, costing Obama his electoral college victory. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 10:05 pm
This year's theme is our ailing electoral process, where our esteemed panelists discuss the wider range of conduct that has affected our electoral process. [read post]
5 Dec 2021, 9:30 am
It integrates two major democratic models – electoral democracy and consultative democracy. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 9:00 pm
Holder (2013).Even when states manage their elections properly, they feed their results into an Electoral College system that is arbitrary and convoluted at best—and an anti-democratic monstrosity at worst.All these flaws were evident in the epic election meltdown of 2000, which came down to a disputed margin of 537 votes separating Republican George W. [read post]
