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26 Jan 2020, 7:17 am
It is true, of course, that presidents consider domestic politics, including electoral politics, in everything they do. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 12:58 pm
Davis II Chair in Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Peter M. [read post]
6 Apr 2023, 12:57 pm
Victoria Sutton’s article The Electoral College—Now, More Than Ever was cited in the following article: Paul Boudreaux, No More January Sixths: A Constitutional Proposal to Take Politics Out of Presidential Election Mechanics, 24 U. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 11:37 am
And you are going to see it on the faces of the young and educated when they realize that, once again, the president has sold them down the river for the cause of electoral expediency, even as Obama’s numbers drop so low that his heat can only be measured in Kelvin degrees.In the total debt ceiling cave-in that will mark Barack Obama as the most successful Republican president since Ronald Reagan, there was one cut that really illustrates how little the president cares for his young,… [read post]
8 May 2013, 6:23 am
Will higher education institutions and the electorate find other avenues to achieve equality even if the Court strikes down these two cases? [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 6:01 am
I’ve been thinking a lot about Berenson’s words as I have watched Donald Trump’s rise to electoral plausibility over the past few months. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:28 am
He has urged supporters to turn out to protest in Washington on the day, January 6, 2021, that Congress formally tallies the Electoral College vote in favor of President-elect Biden. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 12:30 pm
Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominates man to be part of the electoral college, and he pledges he'll vote for the Democratic candidate if she wins Minnesota's general election. [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 6:30 am
Even less nefariously, the referendum may be used as a way for politicians to eschew responsibility for unpopular decisions (e.g. on abortion or same-sex marriage), to break political deadlock or rework the political rules of the game (e.g. changing the electoral system), or even for inner party reasons, to settle internal competition (e.g. as the Brexit referendum started out). [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 6:30 am
Not that left-leaning policies are normatively superior to right-leaning ones (this they take for granted), but that the structure of our polity (the relationship between government and its subjects, the way public power is created and then reigned in) is determined by the choices we make about our political economy—just as it is determined by choices about whether to have a bicameral legislature or an electoral college. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 3:45 pm
If the federal courts continue to accept the ban, then the Constitution forbids inclusion of a citizenship question in a census that allocates House seats and Electoral College votes to the states because it reduces accuracy. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
For instance, it would prevent the platforms from taking any actions around Trump’s false claims of electoral victory—a dangerous limitation in an environment where 48 percent of Trump supporters said after the election that they expected Trump to be sworn in to a second term, despite President-elect Biden’s decisive victory in the Electoral College. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
Alexander Tsesis is D’Alemberte Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 6:41 am
Ramirez, 418 US 24 (1974), the Supreme Court held that the language in Section 2 italicized above assumes that States can deny its citizens the right to vote, inasmuch as it specifies the consequences in the event they do so: Their representation in the House of Representatives (and the Electoral College) will be correspondingly and proportionately reduced by the number of people so deprived of the right, unless the disenfranchisement is for "participation in rebellion"… [read post]
23 Oct 2023, 4:00 am
Suppose that Chesebro or Eastman had told Trump that Vice President Pence had the right to reject certified Electoral College votes from any state in which Pence unilaterally decided that the "Democrat governor of the state is a woke socialist, so we should have a do-over supervised by the US military. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 5:01 am
With the latest Jan. 6 congressional hearings focusing on what then-President Trump’s closest advisers and associates told him—that there was no fraud in the 2020 elections and that Vice President Pence did not have legal authority to refuse to count Electoral College votes—many observers are (once again) speculating about Trump’s potential criminal liability. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 11:04 am
That is, the Electoral College and the two-senators-per-state rule are not, in their minds, imperfections or historical accidents based on unprincipled compromises in drafting the Constitution. [read post]
5 May 2022, 9:01 pm
The picture is the same for state lower houses (sometimes called state assemblies, state houses of representatives, etc.) except that the Minnesota lower legislative chamber, like its statewide electorate in the last presidential election, is Blue. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
For example, (almost) every state’s decision to award its electoral college votes on a “winner take all,” rather than proportional, basis is explicable by reference to each state’s desire to reward the presidential candidate who takes that state’s concerns and issues most seriously. [read post]
7 May 2022, 12:17 pm
Greene discussed her plans to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by supporting challenges to the certification of Electoral College votes. [read post]
