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To: sourcery

“The Supreme Court’s initial unanimous decision in the 2000 election dispute vacated the Florida Supreme Court’s first decision for failing to take into account this doctrine prohibiting state constitutions from constricting state legislative directions about the appointment of presidential electors. Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board (2000).”
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/2/essays/79/presidential-electors

Nothing the state- including it’s legislature, courts or executive- does can interfere with the Constitutional power of the legislature to appoint electors.
There’s more on the issue at the link.

Not sure we have a disagreement though.


28 posted on 11/27/2016 10:48:43 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mrsmith

We have a disagreement if you’re saying that the Supreme Court ruled a state legislature doesn’t have the authority to set statutory requirements for the appointment of electors. The ruling says no such thing.


31 posted on 11/27/2016 11:00:11 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: mrsmith

I’m not sure we have a disagreement either.

The issue is, who decides whether or not a state’s legislature has actually appointed any Electors? And who Constitutionally decides who has or has not been appointed by a state’s legislature?


35 posted on 11/27/2016 11:17:37 AM PST by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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