Posted on 10/30/2017 2:41:12 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez spoke at Indiana University Law School this week. The name of the talk was The Lawyer’s Duty: Social Justice, Racial Justice, Economic Justice, but somehow Perez ended up discussing the Electoral College, and made a huge error in the process.
“The Electoral College is not a creation of the Constitution,” Perez said. “It doesn’t have to be there.”
Except, the Electoral College is in the Constitution. Right here in Article II, to be exact:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Oh, poor Tom.
Perez may not like the Electoral College, given that fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election despite winning the popular vote in November, but we use it for a reason: it’s in the Constitution. So yes, it does have to be there, unless we pass an amendment to change this.
In any setting, this would be embarrassing, let alone one where students could literally have multiple copies of the Constitution at the time, be it in textbooks or pocket versions handed out in school. Hopefully professors used this moment as a teaching opportunity.
For the record, Perez has a law degree from Harvard, but after this error, the school may hope that he takes Anthony Scaramucci‘s advice and not bring it up too often.
I think I see the problem....................
There is no fixin’ stupid...
According to the title, his address was supposed to be about how he thinks every lawyer should be a communist.
Perez is an egghead. Not very bright either. “Harvard law grad” doesn’t mean what it once meant.
“given that fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election despite winning the popular vote in November, “
Given that along with extensive vote fraud and illegals voting HilLiary Appeared to win but actually lost. There that seems right.
.. DNC Chair Tom Perez Makes Glaring Constitutional Error in Law School Speech..
Democrats think the law is whatever they want it to be, or don’t want it to be. It is irrational thinking brought about in the heat of emotion, the foundation of liberalism and the democrat party.
Absolutely not surprising.
“Constitutional Law” in law school is not really the actual Constitution at all. It is case law and SCOTUS rulings most of which are Leftist fiats granting sweeping federal government expansion of power and not recognizable as having anything to do with the actual Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.
Law schools professors have been quoted as saying the Constitution is not the supreme law of the land despite Article VI. A lot to remedy in this country.
He looks like the result of putting a snake and a weasel in a food mixer.
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Demoncrats are allergic to the constitution, so you have to forgive their total ignorance thereof.
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Another glaringly deficient Affirmative Action Harvard product that has greatly devalued the worth of a diploma from that institution.
A scrambled egghead.
The Constitution to a Democrat is like garlic to a vampire.
Being a lefty, he doesn’t have to see, read, or acknowledge what is plain to see for the rest of us. He just “knows” better than we do is all.
I recall reading, to my dismay, that Haaaaaavad no longer required law students to take Constitutional Law to graduate.
How stupid.
And this is the result.
Didnt Barry Soeotoro go to Harvard as well?
To leftists, the Constitution has what *they* say it has, nothing more or less.
It is a question of who will be master, nothing more.
(to paraphrase Humpty Dumpty in Wonderland)
I love it when they talk.
Or it’s analagous to Boy Scouts. It seemed that most of the time, but not always, a kid who didn’t make it to Eagle often seemed to get more out of scouting than one who did.
Harvard Sucks.
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