Posted on 11/30/2016 9:50:35 AM PST by drewh
Anti-Trump forces are apparently planning an all out legal assault on the Electoral College in a last ditch effort to keep Donald Trump from taking office in the White House. The plan? To file legal action in all 29 states which have laws that prohibit electors from “voting their conscience.” In other words, laws that prevent electors from going against the state’s popular vote.
The inside scoop on what is being planned:
Leaders of the effort, mainly Democrats, have plans to challenge laws in the 29 states that force electors to support their party’s candidate. Those laws have never been tested, leaving some constitutional experts to argue they’re in conflict with the founders’ intention to establish a body that can evaluate the fitness of candidates for office and vote accordingly.
They’d still have to get 37 Republican electors to turn against Trump to have an impact on the election outcome. That’s going to be a tough task especially because there have been few reports that Republican electors are willing to abandon their party to vote against Trump. Sources said they will also have a coalition of lawyers that will be ready to defend (for free) anyone who votes in opposition to their party’s candidate when then the Electoral College meets on December 19.
Last week, Lawrence Lessig, a well-known professor of law at Harvard University and a political activist, penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post encouraging electors to cast their votes for Clinton despite Trump winning more votes in the Electoral College. His theory is that, while it has never been tested like this, the Electoral College is a “safety valve” that is intended “to confirm — or not — the people’s choice.
Other legal scholars believe that if the Electoral College abandons Trump, it may go against the rule of law. “Turning the electors into mighty platonic guardians doesn’t seem to be the right way to go,” UC Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote in a Friday blog post.
“So yes, I’d love to get rid of the Electoral College,” he wrote. “But not ignore it in an election where everyone agreed it was the set of rules to use.” LawNewz.com will follow this legal effort closely, and update you on this website.
they want the ISSUE not the solution.
the left wants to claim they were denied via the “rigged right wing fascist courts maaaaannnnnn.”
Their lawyers and the clients should be sanctioned for frivolous lawsuits.
I bought another automatic the other day...for that reason exactly!
So they want a small group of people to decide the presidential race-not the popular vote?
Free and fair elections.
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Question:
What do Democrats (and progressives and Marxists) fear and hate the very most?
I fear for the lives of those persons that attempt such a thing (and especially I fear for the lives for those that are bankrolling it), if they are ‘successful’ in overthrowing the election results that is.
we will see what the American people do if the election is stolen from them
I am peaceful and have no plans other than to watch what may come. I am trusting the judiciary to slap this garbage right out of court. We will see.
Get rid of the electoral college and only a few states matter. The remaining states will not. This is the road to civil war.
These people are batshiit crazy. Totally an exercise in Mental Masturbation!!
Keep leftists focused on Trump.
Real people should get out there and take advantage of the greatest economic opportunity since Reagan’s 1980s.
We’re in for a great ride folks! Get busy and earn money!
Libs really want to start something they can’t finish; they would wind up on the even more losing end.
That’s all I will say on this public forum.
No, the candidate still gets to pick the electors. The election tells you which candidate gets to pick them.
At least now, if the candidate decides to murder his entire family on live TV after being elected, we have a way for to get avoid putting him in office.
I agree with the lawyers who say the electors should not be forced to pick their state’s winning candidate. That clearly goes against the founders’ intent and turns the electors into mere figureheads.
Nailed It !
Might I suggest cutting Ca and NY into two parts.
In NY...S from the 42nd parallel to the 42 45 00 parallel. N to the 45th parallel. (Or something like that)
Explained to us all once more with the cautionary tales from “Star Wars”:
Darth Sidious was a human male Dark Lord of the Sith who served as the last Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and as the Emperor of the Galactic Empire, and was the last reigning Dark Lord of the Sith under Darth Bane’s Rule of Two. Sidious, born as Sheev Palpatine, was trained in the dark side of the Force by Darth Plagueis. Eventually, Sidious took on his own apprentice, Darth Maul, and killed his master. As he continued to train Maul, Sidious came into contact with Count Dooku of Serenno, a member of the Jedi Order, who helped further Sidious’ plans. In his public persona, Sidious was the unassuming Senator Palpatine of Naboo, a position he used to manipulate galactic events to his own design.
Thirteen years before his Imperial ascent, Sidious engineered the Invasion of Naboo and used the political crisis as a pretext to being elected Supreme Chancellor by the Galactic Senate. With Maul’s defeat at the hands of the Jedi, Sidious was in need of a new apprentice. Dooku left the Jedi Order and was bestowed the title “Darth Tyranus” by Sidious. Together, they formed the Confederacy of Independent Systems to spark a galactic civil war.
It takes at the very least three amendments to the Constitution. Cannot be done by legislation.
Yep - Dems LOVE the whole SUPER-delegate system - where some voters are more equal than others...
>>Ray v. Blair in case anyone wants to refute these lawsuits to a lib.
I’m no lawyer, but ‘Ray v. Blair’ seems to only address the issue of whether electors can be forced to take a pledge. It doesn’t address the ‘faithless elector’ case.
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