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The Supreme Court has agreed to address a challenge to the Electoral College
Aerican Thinker ^ | 1/18/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/18/2020 9:49:22 AM PST by antidemoncrat

Since then, Democrats have been bent on destroying the Electoral College by any means short of a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court has now agreed to take up one of Democrats' attacks on the Electoral College.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; oneweirdtrick; scotus
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If the Democrats aka Demoncrats succeed in destroying the Electoral College they will have destroyed this Republic.
1 posted on 01/18/2020 9:49:22 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

It would basically mean mob rule.


2 posted on 01/18/2020 9:51:48 AM PST by Starboard
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To: antidemoncrat

How could America reach a point where the Supreme Court will rule on our Electoral College?

If loser don’t like it that they lose, then appeal to more states next time.

That’s why we have it-—so CA and NY will not have 12 million vote margin for Bernie and win the nonexistent “popular vote election.”


3 posted on 01/18/2020 9:53:59 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Is the Constitution constitutional? We shall see....


4 posted on 01/18/2020 9:58:17 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Starboard

What lower court ruled against the Electoral College?


5 posted on 01/18/2020 9:58:40 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: antidemoncrat

Unlike yours, this link explains the challenge:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-electoral-idUSKBN1ZG2EH


6 posted on 01/18/2020 9:58:51 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Freee-dame

None


7 posted on 01/18/2020 9:59:33 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: gundog

See my link


8 posted on 01/18/2020 9:59:54 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: antidemoncrat

The headline is a bit misleading, unless there are two electoral colleges cases that the SCOTUS has agreed to take on. As I understand it, the case before the court is whether states have the Constitutional rights to punish faithless electors who choose to cast their electoral college vote against the wishes of the popular vote in that state. This doesn’t seem like it’s a direct challenge to the electoral college system itself.


9 posted on 01/18/2020 10:01:02 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: TexasGator

Thanks for the link.


10 posted on 01/18/2020 10:01:46 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: gundog
Is the Constitution constitutional?

You'll need a stiff drink before you here the answer to that.

11 posted on 01/18/2020 10:02:06 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: antidemoncrat

Basically for the same reasons why Democrats fought for and protected Jim Crow laws in the South until the mid 1960s.


12 posted on 01/18/2020 10:03:57 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: antidemoncrat

I have to wonder how Chief Justice Roberts will opine.


13 posted on 01/18/2020 10:04:22 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: antidemoncrat

How do they Rule to the Constitutionality of something that is written into the Constitution?

Of course, all the States that have imposed giving their Electoral Votes to the Popular Vote Winner are already violating it.

Yeah, I know. That “Shall Not Be Infringed” part is completely ignored already so no surprise.


14 posted on 01/18/2020 10:05:08 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: NohSpinZone; Lazamataz
the case before the court is whether states have the Constitutional rights to punish faithless electors who choose to cast their electoral college vote against the wishes of the popular vote in that state. This doesn’t seem like it’s a direct challenge to the electoral college system itself.

You don't see rampant Faithless Electors as an easy route to destroying the entire process? I surely do.

The RNC isn't exactly on our side. They are not for Term limits, they are scared and angry that a non-politician is proving that We the People don't actually need a Political Class to rule DC, and they are not eager to I've up their positions. The RNC and DNC collude to choose electors who will pick Lazamataz, instead of the top vote-getter in each state, and there is literally nothing we can do about it. Poor Laz would be stuck with the job.

15 posted on 01/18/2020 10:07:06 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: antidemoncrat

If the Supremes rule against the college we are back in revolution-mode.


16 posted on 01/18/2020 10:07:58 AM PST by marron
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To: antidemoncrat

Unlike the writer, the expert she consulted has enough sense to not comment without doing research first.


17 posted on 01/18/2020 10:08:15 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: TexasGator

Thanks! Sounds like nonsense:

“The plaintiffs challenged the sanctions, saying they were deprived of their rights under the Constitution’s Article II as well as its 12th Amendment, which spell out the Electoral College process.”


18 posted on 01/18/2020 10:10:58 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Teacher317
The RNC and DNC collude to choose electors who will pick Lazamataz, instead of the top vote-getter in each state, and there is literally nothing we can do about it. Poor Laz would be stuck with the job.

You say it like it's a bad thing! Vote Laz - "Every Night is Lady's Night" !

19 posted on 01/18/2020 10:11:06 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Teacher317

The faithless electors in 2016 all voted against Cankles and for John Kasich and Colin Powell, LOL.


20 posted on 01/18/2020 10:11:30 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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