Posted on 06/15/2021 5:58:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Golden State has consistently gone blue in every presidential election spanning from 1992 through 2020.
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The Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of California's winner-take-all method for choosing presidential electors.
"Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted by California's use of the so-called winner-take-all system," the petition said. "That system, by law, results in the appointment of members of only one political party to the Nation's largest electoral college delegation."
Among the petitioners are actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
The Golden State has consistently gone blue in every presidential election spanning from 1992 through 2020. Prior to that, the state had gone red during every election from 1968 through 1988.
actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez
As well they should. The Constitution is very clear that the state legislators determine how Presidential Electors are chosen, and as long as Kalifornia is following the procedure set forth by the state legislature, the Supremes have nothing to say about it.
In EVERY state, including CA.
Seems to me this sets a modern precedent for State’s rights to choose how their elections are held. It could bode well for those States who are attempting to minimize voter fraud.
Well, a guy can dream.
What this does is disenfranchise Republican voters in calif. This is not good for AMERICA and shows what a bunch of politicised cowards exist on the supreme court.
That doesn’t surprise me, and if they had ruled favorably for those who brought the suit, a group in Texas would bring a similar suit. It might then be brought in every state that is winner take all, and chaos would eventually be the result.
Perhaps this bodes well for SCOTUS to knock down HR1 should it ever become (unconstitutional) law.
This is probably a good thing, the way I read it, the SC just Affirmed the State Legislature has absolute Authority over election matters, regardless of what CONgress might pass pretending to be law. see HR1
The same could be said for Democrat voters in Texas and Oklahoma and Alabama and Mississippi and Indiana and Ohio and...
Which is precisely why they should have taken it and affirmed this.
They are dodging ALL election cases, which is horrible for the Republic. This in essence certifies the fraud in MI and WI.
The only election related cases the Supreme Court will hear are when lawsuits against the states trying to really institute real election integrity. So far it’s been that the states get to decide. That will quickly flip when states want to decide they want actually voter integrity.
OF COURSE they refused! Winner-Take-All really means “DEMONRATS win all”, the Demonrats control SCOTUS, either through sympathetic justices like Kagan, or via intimidation like Roberts and the “textualists” except Thomas.
In this case The SCOTUS was correct. The Constitution is explicit. The state legislatures control how the Electors are selected. They could choose Cow-Patty Bingo if they so chose,and it would be Constitutional..................
Technically, the Supreme Court cannot tell the States how to run their elections as long as they do not violate the Constitution. States have been given wide latitude to decide how elections are run within their borders.
This is one of the reasons I think the National Vote movement is unconstitutional and would be disastrous should it ever come down to a recount because it will be shown to be an impractical mess.
Texas is also winner take all, and goes red, so you are billing silly.
It’s 100 percent up to each state how it wants to send electors, period.
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