[FreeReign]

The appointment of the President is a reserved power of the 50 State Legislatures (+3 votes Congress gave itself in 1960). Courts have nothing to do with it, nor should they.

They did in FL a couple of decades ago. I don't see their decision as being wrong.

[Jim Noble]

There’s a lot to learn from Florida 2000.

The Legislature was 1) in session, 2) ready, and 3) willing to appoint Republican electors. They didn’t have to, because the USSC seized a power it never had and ordered the counting to stop and thereby closing the election with Bush ahead.

Had the counting continued, Florida would have sent two slates of Electors to Congress and the country would have had an education in what the Constitution actually says.

There was zero chance Bush would not have come out of Congress as the President. There was a <50% chance, but non-zero, that Joe Lieberman would have been VP.