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17 Sep 2008, 4:21 pm
One can, of course, argue that the president is "the choice of the people," but, surely, so long as we have the Electoral College, that argument is, if not outright bogus, at least highly contingent.Again, I wonder if anyone elsewhere in the world, faced with the task of designing a workable constitution that would engender the loyalty of a thinking citizenry, would be "inspired" by Will's column to say, "We should certainly emulate the US and its… [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 4:24 pm
– Bernstein (11/13) Richard Posner on the Rise and Fall of Judicial Deference – Somin (11/13) Business and the Roberts Court Revisited (Again) – Adler (5/13) Posner defends the Electoral College – Adler (11/12) Posner’s Criticism Is Pretty Weak With this Example From the Scalia & Garner Book – Kerr (9/12) Goofiness is in the eye of the beholder – Bernstein (7/12) Love him or hate him, Posner’s work has been consistently… [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 3:43 pm
So I think it’s time for some constitutional amendments that would really make a difference End the electoral college in favor of voting for president by popular vote, ending the reign of minority presidents like Trump – unless the courts still manage to protect underworld control of elections End the treatment of corporations as legal persons and let them face the regulatory ax End gerrymandering and put an end to control by judicial partisans who shred the meaning of… [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 1:59 pm
The request was the latest development in the battle for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral college votes, but it came after Democrat Joe Biden had pulled ahead in the vote count in the state. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 11:49 am
*Ashley Elmore Drew is a second-year law student at Stetson University College of Law. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 6:49 am
Shutterstock As the Electoral College map turned red on Tuesday, many Americans saw red, too, and apparently had thoughts about moving to Canada. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 12:43 pm
The term “gerrylaundering” refers to efforts during redistricting to perpetuate skewed electoral maps. [read post]
7 May 2010, 12:57 am
Their first - and perhaps only - order of business would be to rejig ("reform") the electoral system to create a "continental" coalition style of government that would ensure that a clear, principled conservative government could never again take office. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 2:55 am
The Acting President would serve until the next scheduled election was concluded in the Electoral College. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 3:21 pm
So there is no particular reason to think that the electoral college count is far off from the usual estimates that are giving O a substantial advantage. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 12:40 am
(Among his accomplishments was reforming the Papal electoral system.) [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 11:56 am
" The issue of standing has in recent months proved vexing to a number of lawsuits naming politicians as defendants, including suits alleging President Obama is not a "natural born citizen," as well as suits alleging that John McCain also flunked the "natural-born citizen" test, and that the 12th Amendment barred Texas delegates to the 2000 Electoral College from voting for both George W. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 3:50 pm
And the court addressed neither standing (I still believe there is a decent argument about undifferentiated interests) or political question doctrine (I am trying to figure out what relief the court possibly could have granted that would not have stepped on the congressional toes that certified Obama as the Electoral College winner). [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 11:10 am
We used to elect Presidents who were Presidents of Colleges (Woodrow Wilson-Princeton University) or were nuclear engineers (Carter). [read post]
28 May 2007, 3:15 pm
(Many Americans at the time preferred the cowboy mentality of Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter in an Electoral College landslide. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 5:42 pm
Supreme Court majority failed to respect Congress's role in resolving disputes over Electoral College votes; (3) the Court's equal protection holding which ended the Florida recount promoted inequality, rather than equality; and (4) Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices Scalia and Thomas voted strategically in support of the equal protection holding of the per curiam opinion because of the bad press that would come from having "a majority of Justices in fact… [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 6:08 am
Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment (A state could discriminate on the basis of race in voting, but if it did its representation in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives would be reduced).3. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 7:21 pm
After spending eight years working my way through college to get an undergraduate degree that my parents could not help pay for, I went to law school, too.I worked hard for it -- as did John Edwards. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 2:51 am
If more and more Southerners could have afforded to own slaves, Foner points out, that might have greatly increased Southern representation in the House (and the Electoral College) because of the three-fifths rule. [read post]
26 Nov 2006, 12:12 pm
To do anything further about the former would require elimination of the electoral college, something devoutly to be wished but obviously raising many political complexities. [read post]
