My post: “You think the Governor has to approve what the Constitution says is the purview of the LEGISLATURE, regarding electors???”
Your response: “In the case of PA, yes, because that’s what it says in the PA constitution that created the PA legislature.
To date SCOTUS has agreed.”
I see nothing in the PA Constitution giving the Governor the power to appoint electors.
Please cite the section you believe is applicable.
Thank you.
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_VII,_Pennsylvania_Constitution
The PA Constitution outlines the process for creating laws.
Using this process the PA legislature, with the governor's assent, passed (and amended) the Pennsylvania Election Code which details the process for choosing electors.
So the legislature has determined how electors are selected and codified it.
If they now want to change this they can, but only using the process outlined in the PA constitution.
In essence, SCOTUS has ruled that the reference to state legislature in this instance is synonymous with the state writ large. The state gets to choose how its electors are selected.
It's almost impossible to imagine the states ratifying the US Constitution otherwise.
Furthermore, even if the Pennsylvania does say so, how could the Pennsylvania constitution exceed the authority of the United States constitution?
If that were possible, then Texans need to make some amendments to the Texas constitution banning abortion, removing exemptions for Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc... and correcting a whole bunch of other things! Texans seem to pass constitutional amendments almost every other election cycle.