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28 Dec 2017, 2:59 am
Wilson won easily in the Electoral College against the divided Taft and Roosevelt factions, but his 42% popular vote total was the third-lowest winning tally in history. 7. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 5:30 am
Frederic Rogers Kellogg was born in Boston and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. [read post]
29 Jun 2019, 7:36 am
To take an absolutely easy example, most Americans since 1944 have agreed that the electoral college should go; it has not because of both the inordinate difficulty of amending the national constitution (unlike many state constitutions) coupled with the all-important fact that there has been no genuine national mobilization of an aroused public demanding action. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 9:57 am
It's basically the same problem Democrats have with the Electoral College: Their voters aren't spread out enough geographically. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 12:56 pm
But Brooks, who argued on his own behalf, emphasized that his motivation in speaking at the Jan. 6 rally was not simply to support Republican candidates in future elections, but also to convince his fellow congresspeople to vote against the certification of the electoral college votes. [read post]
5 Feb 2022, 6:30 am
The greatest risk to American democracy in current times is indeed that lies about voter fraud or other asserted “legal irregularities” will enable the Republican presidential candidate in 2024—whether Trump or someone similarly anti-democratic—to steal the election through politicized state election officials who manipulate vote counting, or through Republican-led state legislatures that reject the popular vote in their states and submit alternative slates of… [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 6:02 am
Nobody had won a majority in the electoral college, so the top three candidates (John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford) proceeded to the House contest. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 4:30 am
To defeat Trump, it does not suffice to win more electoral college votes than Trump. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 11:38 am
The effort to overturn Trump’s Electoral College loss has bitterly divided the caucus, with some Republican lawmakers condemning the objectors’ maneuver. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 10:51 am
Article II confers a federal function to the Electoral College, an entity the Supreme Court has held is not a branch of government. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
Sellars emphasized that this second rule has particular application to functions, like certifying the Electoral College vote, that the Constitution “hermetically seals” off from the president. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
As has become common to note, many features of our constitutional structure do the opposite --- including the design of the Senate, the Electoral College, the absence of judicial term limits, and the structure of Article V. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 12:15 pm
Texas asked the Supreme Court to consider the case and temporarily prohibit the four states from having their electors cast votes in the Electoral College. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 12:14 pm
But at roughly the same time, about 70 percent of the population will live in just 15 states — which means that just 30 percent of the country will choose 70 percent of Senators and a super-majority of the Electoral College. [read post]
14 Apr 2018, 2:00 pm
The Founders expected that such dangerous men would be kept away from the presidency by institutions such as the electoral college, which was supposed to exercise independent judgment and screen out demagogues. [read post]
28 May 2022, 7:51 am
” He then amended 13 years of disclosure forms.In other related news, Thomas did report Ginny's income on his disclosure forms from 1992-1996.3) While Ginny Thomas was e-mailing Arizona legislators urging them to overthrow the 2020 election and appoint their own electors, Justice Thomas was advocating a legal rule, the independent state legislature doctrine, that would give state legislatures complete control over the electoral college count even… [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 8:45 am
A gun license was acceptable, but an out of state drivers’ license was not, and nor was a college ID — even from the University of Texas, a state institution. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 9:33 am
He is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 10:50 am
Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into the involvement of officials in alleged efforts to use fake electors to illegally obstruct the certification of Electoral College votes for the election. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 10:30 am
The hearing comes two days after the Electoral College formally certified President-elect Biden’s win with 306 electoral votes. [read post]
