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To: Vince Ferrer

While the NPV is a horrid corruption, it doesn’t violate Article II or Article IV. Scotus loves democracy and elevated voting to a fundamental right.


18 posted on 04/07/2019 12:48:27 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
Von Spakovsky deals with the issue of compacts among states in some detail. They are clearly unconstitutional and can be challenged by the others states. Almost certainly prevailing.

The Constitution’s Compact Clause provides that “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress…enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.”[18] The Founders created the Compact Clause because they feared that compacting states would threaten the supremacy of the federal government in matters of foreign affairs and relations among the states.[19] If states could make agreements among themselves, they could damage the nation’s federalist structure. Populist states, for example, cannot agree to have their U.S. Senators vote to seat only one Senator from a less populous state...

23 posted on 04/07/2019 2:03:11 PM PDT by centurion316
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