I posted this earlier:
Article IV
SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
I’m actually not sure how relevant this provision is to federal elections. It may only be addressing the way a state is allowed to choose its state officials. Aside from possibly this aforementioned clause it does not appear that the Constitution provides any restrictions in how electors can by chosen by state legislatures. Article II, Section I, Clause II seems to give the legislature full discretion on how they choose their electors. There doesn’t appear to be any provision in that section of the Constitution that requires state legislatures to follow the popular will of their state.
It appears that the submission of procedural votes for Trump by Trump electors is an action that is allowed for by the laws of the individual states in question. So these Trump electors are simply exercising a right they have under their state law. Nothing about this process is described in the Constitution. As far as I know there may be Federal statutes on the books that regulate how they’re handled, but this is mainly a mechanism that has been created by individual states to deal with the kind of situation in which we currently find ourselves. I’m not sure if all states have similar laws or not. It looks like all of the swing states in question do.
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