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30 Nov 2016, 7:35 am
"Our democracy's been hacked now. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 2:32 pm
Republicans control the federally-organized Congress and Donald Trump prevailed in the electoral college. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 1:02 pm
Thomas, who was previously in the news for his role in authoring the torture memos in the Bush Administration) argues in his Cardozo De Novo piece that the Uniform Faithless Electors Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 6:30 am
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28 Nov 2016, 5:08 pm
In short: [I]f the electoral college is to control who becomes our president, we should take it seriously by understanding its purpose precisely. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 3:30 pm
[Huffington Post] * Yes, the electoral college sucks, but they are still going to elect Donald Trump. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 11:18 am
Those, of course, were three states pivotal in securing Donald Trump’s electoral college win, and so the movement has taken on an undeniable political character; many supporting Hillary Clinton view it with dim hope of a second chance, while those who support Trump claim it is desperation from sore losers. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 8:03 am
This isn't what the Framers intended. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 5:57 am
* "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 4:52 pm
The other time was in 2000; that election was resolved via the SCOTUS decison in Bush v Gore.All of this has us over here at the Law Blogger re-examining the indirect method by which we select our president through the electoral college.The electoral college is rooted in Article II of the United States Constitution, as fine-tuned by the Twelfth Amendment. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 2:22 pm
Also:It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the Electoral College in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4-states instead of the 15 states that I visited. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 3:54 pm
Perhaps a retired President Obama could also speak to the idiocy of the electoral college and of life-tenure for Supreme Court justices. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 9:15 am
The electoral college, like the Senate, is really a valuable feature of our political system instead of an affirmative action program for the residents of small states (i.e., the Senate) and, with regard to the electoral college, the residents of small states and of those relatively few "battleground" states that get to be pandered (and lied) to every four years. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 2:03 pm
* Orin Kerr isn't persuaded by Larry Lessig's argument in favor of the Electoral College picking Hillary Clinton as president. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 2:02 pm
Nevertheless, because he did not win the majority of the Electoral College votes, the election was decided by the House of Representatives. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 11:55 am
Voters in small states have more electoral college impact than voters in large states. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 11:07 am
(After all, Lincoln won with only 39.8% of the popular vote, and his victory in the electoral college was substantially caused by the presence of three other candidates on the ballot.) [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 9:32 am
There is also the thought that states'-rights protect geographically concentrated minorities (think Quebec) or allow minorities to sort themselves into places that protect rights that are important to them but are not guaranteed nationally.The current operation of the Electoral College, the Senate, and (maybe) the House of Representatives raises another possibility--federalism exists to protect the majority from the minority. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 9:11 am
The electors acknowledge that it is unlikely that they will be able to block Trump from gaining office, Politico reported, but they are optimistic that their effort will raise enough questions about the Electoral College to reform or abolish it. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 7:38 pm
This anomaly is the work of the venerated Electoral College. [read post]
