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25 Sep 2020, 5:27 am
With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:00 am
If southern representation in the Electoral College and House of Representatives had not been augmented by human bondage, John Adams would have defeated Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election, the Kansas-Nebraska Act would not have become law, and other pro-slavery measures might have been defeated. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 3:00 am
But when the dust settled, Truman easily defeated Dewey in the Electoral College, by a 303 to 189 margin. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 1:25 pm
This year there are others, including New Mexico, Nevada and very possibly Virginia.The media give us a lot of information about national tracking polls, but as we all learned the hard way eight years ago, our Presidential elections ultimately are determined by a few states rather than the country as a whole, thanks to that crazy Electoral College! [read post]
13 May 2015, 11:43 am
Or one can argue for making the Electoral College into a deliberative body, in which the electors are supposed to discuss the candidates and make various political deals, rather than being elected solely to vote for particular candidates. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 1:49 pm
His opinion begins: Three voters and three Republican nominees to the electoral college in Michigan brought this suit in a bid to overturn the results of the state's 2020 presidential election. [read post]
28 Apr 2018, 4:30 am
Only one cranky elector in New Hampshire kept Monroe from a unanimous win in the Electoral College. 8. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 12:53 pm
HEIN AND COMPANY Electoral Count of 1877 Proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the Two Houses of Congress in Joint Meeting Relative to the Count of Electoral Votes Cast December 6, 1876.... [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 12:00 am
Indeed, it appears as if the popular vote was tilted in Clinton’s favor, even if Trump captured enough votes in the Electoral College to become the next president. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 4:00 pm
Indeed, it appears as if the popular vote was tilted in Clinton’s favor, even if Trump captured enough votes in the Electoral College to become the next president. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 6:19 am
Proponents of free labor and racial equality sought constitutional reform because the unamended constitution provided former confederate states with thirty extra seats in the House of Representatives and thirty extra votes in the Electoral College for former slaves denied the ballot. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 8:23 am
He served as an elector for the Socialist Workers Party at a time when it supported abolishing the military budget and seeking solidarity with revolutionary regimes in Iran and Cuba. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
But what if a new problem directly implicates a solution that one political party could ride to electoral victory? [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 2:24 pm
Such a position would doom that candidate’s electoral chances. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:00 pm
A land where no one needs to worry about a complex Electoral College or presidential electors—faithless or otherwise. [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 2:04 pm
But the other candidate, Donald Trump, became President because of the plain rules of the Constitution, which decides the presidency through the electoral college, and thus the electoral vote, even if that is not what a majority of the voters chose. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 4:00 am
Undergirding both electoral and deliberative democracy are institutions supporting the rule of law. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 1:07 pm
., “The Electoral System in a Democratic Cuba”Antonio Zamora, Attorney, Adjunct Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law, “The Legal Relations Between the U.S. and Cuba”--Laritza Diversent, Cuban Attorney and Blogger (invited), “Aspectos legales y sociales de las reformas migratorias recientes”Discussants:Pedro Freyre, Shareholder; Chair, International Practice, Akerman Senterfitt LLP; Lecturer in Law, Columbia University… [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm
It is annoying to tell other people to buck up and try harder, but it is especially creepy to do so when one is among the lucky few who is already being coddled by the very people being blamed.The Unspoken Agenda: Union BashingSo why is McConnell leading the charge to block aid to states and cities, especially given that his party’s electoral prospects will become significantly worse if their pseudo-tough-love approach makes the health crisis worse and the economy weaker? [read post]
