Posted on 11/30/2016 9:50:35 AM PST by drewh
Anti-Trump forces are apparently planning an all out legal assault on the Electoral College in a last ditch effort to keep Donald Trump from taking office in the White House. The plan? To file legal action in all 29 states which have laws that prohibit electors from voting their conscience. In other words, laws that prevent electors from going against the states popular vote.
The inside scoop on what is being planned:
Leaders of the effort, mainly Democrats, have plans to challenge laws in the 29 states that force electors to support their partys candidate. Those laws have never been tested, leaving some constitutional experts to argue theyre in conflict with the founders intention to establish a body that can evaluate the fitness of candidates for office and vote accordingly.
Theyd still have to get 37 Republican electors to turn against Trump to have an impact on the election outcome. Thats going to be a tough task especially because there have been few reports that Republican electors are willing to abandon their party to vote against Trump. Sources said they will also have a coalition of lawyers that will be ready to defend (for free) anyone who votes in opposition to their partys candidate when then the Electoral College meets on December 19.
Last week, Lawrence Lessig, a well-known professor of law at Harvard University and a political activist, penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post encouraging electors to cast their votes for Clinton despite Trump winning more votes in the Electoral College. His theory is that, while it has never been tested like this, the Electoral College is a safety valve that is intended to confirm or not the peoples choice.
Other legal scholars believe that if the Electoral College abandons Trump, it may go against the rule of law. Turning the electors into mighty platonic guardians doesnt seem to be the right way to go, UC Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote in a Friday blog post.
So yes, Id love to get rid of the Electoral College, he wrote. But not ignore it in an election where everyone agreed it was the set of rules to use. LawNewz.com will follow this legal effort closely, and update you on this website.
“Get rid of the electoral college and only a few states matter. The remaining states will not. This is the road to civil war.”
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Yes, that is what I told my 21 year-old son; his Canadian roommates don’t really understand our system.
I said, were it not for the electoral college, L.A., N.Y.C., Chicago and other big urban cities would be deciding who is president. People in the states where food, energy, etc. is produced would have no say.
Sadly, were it not for Chicago, my home state would probably be a red state. As an aside, it would be interesting to have some form of electoral college on a county level. People living in rural counties in states with huge cities would then have a say as well.
“Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”
We are not fighting against mere humans.
‘Real people should get out there and take advantage of the greatest economic opportunity since Reagans 1980s.
Were in for a great ride folks! Get busy and earn money!’
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Yes! I haven’t followed it closely, but I think the Dow has been going up since the election.
A lot of noise. Trump will be president. And Trump will be a great president!
“These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles,”
As an illustration to what you wrote Guam is 212 square miles. So The PIAPS beat Trump in an area about 1.5 times larger than Guam.
So, they want to let the electors vote without consideration of the wishes of the populace, and, they want to eliminate the electors to enable the populace.
This doesn’t hurt them in their heads?
Record breaking highs since the day after the election.
“These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles,
As an illustration to what you wrote Guam is 212 square miles. So The PIAPS beat Trump in an area about 1.5 times larger than Guam.”
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Thank you for that enlightening post, ManHunter, and for the perspective, Fai Mao.
Incredible!
And the people living in those 319 square miles depend on the hard work of the people living in the rest of the country for their food, etc. They couldn’t make it on their own.
“Record breaking highs since the day after the election.”
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Fantastic! This does feel like when Reagan was elected!
(and those Carrier employees will now have a Merry Christmas and be able to buy gifts under the tree, instead of waiting for unemployment checks!)
Amen!
HarleyLady you are correct God NEVER fails, this election was,a divine intervention do not know why Trump was chosen only the good lord knows that I too know he was chosen and he WILL NOT FAIL!!
These Dims are vile, poisonous creeps, just like Jill Stein and the clintons themselves!!!!
That goes DOUBLE for Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School. I’m a Harvard alumnus myself, and between Jill Stink and Lawrence the Least, I’m not too proud of Harvard right now!!!!
These creeps set themselves up as judges of “fitness”, and believe that the Electors should vote for the candidate they deem to be fit—Hillary clinton!!!! Well, the American voters who picked these electors have judged otherwise.
What makes the creeps of the legal underworld more fit to judge “fitness”than the voters? And what makes the illegal and La Raza infested electorate of California more qualified to elect a President (via “popular vote”) than the Electors of the 30 states that voted for Trump?
EVERY State should have a law that binds their Electors to vote for the candidate selected by that State’s voters. PHOOEY!!!!
I agree with the lawyers who say the electors should not be forced to pick their states winning candidate. That clearly goes against the founders intent and turns the electors into mere figureheads.
Republicans wanted the EC to stop a few lib areas from deciding elections, and Dems wanted it to be majority rules.
The present:
The only people that should count are the 538 people that vote in the electoral college.
What could be more fair than that? /s
But if the EC voters are meant to represent their state, shouldn’t that be the “popular vote” in their state only?
Would that change any states?
Every time I read these kind of articles I buy more ammo. My house is starting to lean towards the north!
They are getting real close to starting a war with their seditious activities. Domestic enemies of the Republic.
The 12th Amendment further clarifies the process.
The electoral college may be intended “to confirm or not” the peoples choice,” but this professor doesn’t seem to understand that the electoral college is not intended to confirm illegal aliens’ choice.
I can’t believe that someone who states he wants to get rid of the electoral college is described as a “legal scholar.”
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