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4 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
That the Electors Clause of Article II, which provides that the “legislature” of each state shall direct the “manner” in which presidential electors are chosen prevents state courts from overturning the expressed will of the legislative body. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 9:31 pm
Such unchecked discretion makes the decision to use this process political—a lesson a Democratic-run Department is now learning the hard way with the unexpected electoral victory of Donald Trump. [read post]
14 Dec 2021, 8:49 am
A joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote was not the sort of “official proceeding” Congress had in mind, they contend. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:35 am
As scholars have extensively documented, the Senate, the Electoral College, and the Supreme Court today are skewed against majority rule. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 5:00 am
[the] political compromise of the Electoral College...overrepresentation of rural voting power in the Senate...and [later] the failure of Reconstruction after the Civil War. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
One set of precedents that we don’t think counts for much involves the presidential elections of 1800 and 1824, when, commentators have pointed out, the House of Representatives picked the President—because no candidate had garnered a majority of the electoral college—apparently using votes that were not made public. [read post]
22 Jul 2024, 8:38 am
Giving parents the vote is a reform that any state can adopt, both for its own elections and for its representation in Congress and the Electoral College. [read post]
4 May 2024, 10:14 am
Fuentes shouted: We just heard that Mike Pence is not going to reject any fraudulent elector votes! [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 9:33 am
He told them that unless they fought “like hell,” they would no longer have a country, as lawmakers mere steps away were set to certify an electoral victory for the wrong man. [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 7:16 am
March 22, 2007Re: If You Want To Know Why We Keep FightingWars, Look No Further Than The South.From: Dean Lawrence R. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
There is a reason, after all, that Republicans’ only hope for electoral salvation is by denying people the right to vote.So even though Trump himself has said bluntly that he thinks it would bore his rally crowds if he were to repeat talking points about the economy, it might actually be true that his advisors are right to think that—from a list of losing policy positions—maybe their economic ideas would do them the least political damage. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 12:25 pm
And in this venue, a few days after Trump’s electoral college victory Jack Balkin wrote a sophisticated analysis of Trump and the politics of disjunction.Carter, and before him Herbert Hoover, are salient examples of failed (disjunctive) presidencies. [read post]
30 Jun 2024, 6:30 am
Formerly enslaved people would now be counted as full persons (not 3/5 of a person, as before) for apportioning representation in Congress and in the electoral college, ironically augmenting the power of states in which so many people had formerly been enslaved. [read post]
22 May 2014, 7:44 am
Despite all the violence that marked the civil rights revolution, the methods championed by , together with the sweeping political victories of racial liberalism in the Martin Luther King's adaptation of Gandhi-like methods, together with the decisive and bipartisan electoral victories of the 1960s, gained a bipartisan "mandate from the People" for landmark statutes and judicial super-precedents that went far beyond the more formal principles of racial… [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
No one in living memory has done more to cast light on dusty provisions of our founding charter, from the obscurities of the foreign emoluments clause to the intricacies of the 12th Amendment and the tabulation of Electoral College votes. [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 6:42 am
She earned a master of electoral law degree from the University of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 8:24 pm
Erica Hollander, Metropolitan State College of Denver: Teaching Debate from a Courtroom Orientation. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm
When the state regulates on the basis of its authority to structure its local electoral process, the courts tend t [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 4:59 am
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3 Mar 2018, 8:24 pm
An outstanding campaigner, Wilson won a huge Electoral College victory, which relegated Roosevelt to the political wilderness for the rest of his life. [read post]
