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 state’s 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 party’s candidate. Those laws have never been tested, leaving some constitutional experts to argue they’re in conflict with the founders’ intention to establish a body that can evaluate the fitness of candidates for office and vote accordingly.
They’d still have to get 37 Republican electors to turn against Trump to have an impact on the election outcome. That’s 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 party’s 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 people’s 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 doesn’t seem to be the right way to go,” UC Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote in a Friday blog post.
“So yes, I’d 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.
Keep the electoral system, but call it “points” and not “votes”. Whoever hits 270 points on election day wins.
That’s how I explained it to my 8-year old son! Worked pretty well actually.
SCOTUS already upheld laws that bind electors. Morons.
Look for suicide rates and riots to culminate 21 JAN 17.
If the electors in the Electoral College are free to do what they want, then there’s no reason to even have an election at all. Just have each state raffle off seats to electors — or award them to the highest bidders — and be done with it.
Democrats are the sorest losers in world history.
I see very clearly how Rome slipped from a Republic into an Empire.
It’s time to water the damn tree....
Ex Post Facto
Too late kids!
It is like watching the death of a floundering fish on the shore. There is no chance for that fish to get off the hook.
When God heard our prayers to send us someone to help pull us and Our Great Nation out of the hell hole these evil people put us in, He answered us by sending us Trump...whatever God touches never fails...NEVER...all we need to do is remember that...God touched Trump as His mouthpiece and we prayed and we won ... no matter what the media or evil people say, God Never Fails...
We really dodged a bullet on November 8. Imagine if these people were being put in charge?
Brilliant strategy!
You damn fools can’t keep Trump and his supporters out of power, but you can make absolutely certain that we’re all mad as hell when we get there.
This should work out well for all of you.
The liberal bastards will stop at NOTHING to beat Trump, short of actually murdering him. Should that happen, it will be the start of another civil war. I’m already reloading lots of different size ammunition. (Anyone have any .280 Remington cases they want to part with?)
Even if liberals succeed in overturning those laws, they still can’t sway GOP electors not to vote for Trump.
Its hilarious how the moonbats are truly desperate. And you would think they would face reality.
Likely never by the looks of it.
Why not start a movement to get Clinton electors to switch their votes to Trump? Bombard them with Clinton’s lawbreaking and corruption.
it won’t work, but the the trench-warfare and stalemate will simply force the left to abandon this battlefield.
How would anyone, except an elector, have legal standing to file such a case?
However God still brings witnesses. The celestial battle between God and Satan hasn’t concluded yet.
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