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This is Walker v. US all over again. On the day that the Electoral College chose Bush in 2000, I helped Bill Walker file his suit in federal court. I had spent the previous two years editing his brief, which was not brief at all. It filled two entire loose-leaf binders and was effectively a graduate level course in the history of Article V.

Judge John Coughenor in Seattle, a Reagan appointee, dismissed it for lack of standing and "futility." Appeals to higher federal courts were denied cert. Our own FReeper "Congressman Billybob," the late John Armour, a constitutional lawyer based in Asheville (NC), walked me through the logic and explained why no federal court would entertain such a suit. It had to do with the Single Subject provision, something not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but understood as a function of contract law, with a tradition that spans over two centuries.

No federal court will agree to hear this case.