The fear is that an activist SJW judge will actually allow this. It just NEVER ends with these people.
The Constitution is quite clear. State legislatures have plenary power to determine how presidential electors are allocated. Period. Full stop.
Hillary still not accepting the results of the election...
I can’t wait until we hear the Ding Dong the Witch is dead!
I see an effort to decertify President Trump’s election from a different direction. The Russian Collusion has ran out of steam and the Left is trying to generate another insurance tactic in case it runs totally dry. David Boies and a Latino organization are promoting it. That raises red flags about the hatred for this country involved in this effort.
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This is foolish nonsense.
The electoral college is the constitutional structure of the republic’s elections.
This is why the founders went to such great lengths to outlaw democracy. It is a failed and destructive form of government.
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Someone failed US Civics 101, apparently.
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As we all know, these people are enemies of the US Constitution.
Need to hang Soros from the tree of Liberty.
Why don’t we just skip having a National Election then, and let Nancy Pelosi pick our next President ?
Jousting at windmills.
They are working an easy work around. Several states have changed their laws to award EC votes not by who won the state but who won the poplular vote. They won’t activate until they have enough states on board....
The MA gov who filed was GOP turned Libertarian William (”Pink”-) Floyd Weld
You said it. Any attorney thinking this case has merit should be disbarred for being incompetent to practice law.
This is embarrassingly ridiculous. Presidential elections are not one national election - you are participating in an election created by your state legislature - that they did not have to grant you. They are completely separate elections - there is no “national popular vote” - does not exist in any official capacity. The quote from David Boies is totally idiotic in the article - there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution granting a right to vote for President - yet he says that there is. The President is elected by the States.
Any sane judge would immediately toss these lawsuits on summary judgment and refer the attorneys who filed it to the bar association for review for possible sanctions.
As a constitutional manner, the stated decide how to choose their electors. The Federal government does not get to dictate that.
Two states (Maine and Nebraska) use the district system, under which the statewide winner gets two electors and the rest are decided by Congressional district. Trump got one electoral vote from Maine.
Article II, Section 1 states that “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”
IOW, states have complete authority to select their electors in any manner they choose.