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To: soupbone1

None. This law is not effect for two reasons.

1. Not enough states have approved the law. If the did it would favor RR because three of the States are California, Ilinois, and Maryland.

2. They may face a constituitonal challenged, which is not clearcut, because state compacts require, per the constitution, approval from Congress. However, the Constituiton allows state to assign electors however they want.


13 posted on 10/19/2012 7:51:42 PM PDT by Perdogg (Vote like the US Constitution depends on it - it does!!)
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To: Perdogg
That's true. Your point 2 is interesting because it raises the question of what happens if the compacting states reach 270 and they try to enforce it, and one state gets cold feet and reneges.

The States have the power to allocate their electoral college votes as they wish, but they don't have the power to compel another state in a compact that Congress did not approve.

-PJ

32 posted on 10/19/2012 8:35:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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