Posted on 02/24/2019 10:00:16 PM PST by ransomnote
Post #1379.
You found the answer before I could. I’m pretty sure it hit a Federal court where it was OK’d to ask, then the left appealed to take it to the Supremes, and they have to look at it fast since it starts next year.
Darn. Whatever-it may technically be ok, but to me it violates the spirit of the law.
Real Democracy = communism.
Give me a few minutes to write this up because it goes all the way back in our history.
So it’s gonna be Red Blooded Bitter Clingers against Soi Boi/goi?
Wonder how that will turn out?
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Great. Discourage me further. Kidding-it will be interesting, as all your stuff is.
thanks.
I read the whole article when it was published.
several months to me is more than 2.
You can try and stop junk mail here https://dmachoice.thedma.org/ yet it still comes...I just shredded 9 pieces of junk mail today. I cannot fit several months of mail in my mailbox and I have petty decent size mailbox.
I wonder how big a unit mailbox is in a Bronx condo ?
Maybe some one other than OAC picked it up every now and again, otherwise I just don’t buy it.
LOL. I’m printing this to show my Hubby.
Thanks for weighing in. We appreciate your expertise.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
Great electoral college video by Prager
You bet!
I’m starting to figure out how it works.
One of my infrequent replies last week to a TWitterite got a few likes and a few hundred impressions.
That was enough to push it into the top replies.
THAT MADE IT MOAR VISIBLE, and it quickly got over 6000 impressions, and went up 20 likes and some retweets. Still spreading...
You are the news now.
Yes, classic ;)
Two chickens and a pig voting on what's for breakfast.
Okay, one detail is maybe off. But that doesn’t invalidate the rest of the article.
When you say “Congress” must ratify the arrangement you mean both houses, right?
By 1844, only South Carolina still had the legislature appointing presidential electors, and that ended in 1868 when a carpetbagger legislature brought South Carolina into harmony with the rest of the nation.
In the contested election of 1876, southern states under military occupation saw the people voting for Democratic electors. Charging fraud, the carpetbagger legislature appointed its own slate of Republican electors. Going completely outside the Constitution, Congress appointed a board of 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats to decide which slate of electors to accept for the congressional tally of electoral votes. In each case, the vote was 4 to 3 to accept the Republican slates. And so Rutherford Hayes of Ohio defeated Samuel Tilden of New York.
In 1877 the dispute made its way to the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled that the state legislature had an undisputed right to appoint electors. A state legislature could even refuse to hold a popular election for electors and appoint its own slate.
In 2000, the Florida Legislature appointed a Republican slate of electors in case the dispute over the election ran past the Safe Harbor Date established by federal law in 1887. The Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore eliminated the need to appoint that slate.
The initiative in question would require a states legislature to hand its duty of appointing electors to the winner of the national popular vote, not the winner of the states popular vote, nor the winner of the popular vote of any of its congressional districts. As long as a states legislature makes that decision, its legal for that state.
Because this would be an interstate pact, it would require congressional approval from both Houses. If that happens, its legal and ready to go into effect.
The larger issue is the Guarantee Clause of Article IV. Is it a republican form of government for a state to ignore the votes of its own citizens to appoint a slate of electors that reflects the national popular will? That will end up in the Supreme Court.
Thank you for explaining the story on the Oswalt tweets. So many moving parts...
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