The end of treasonous conspirators is not good.
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.
They can’t change things retroactively.
They upheld binding party delegates at the convention. I'm not aware of any such decision regarding electors.
Let’s be completely clear; “Anti-Trump Forces” translates to George Soros and his allies - in BOTH parties.
Want to know why we have an electoral college? See the following:
There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them; Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won 46 of them; Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton won only 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond.) Therefore, these 5 counties alone more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles, whereas the United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election and its effect on the rest of the country.
I understand everything you wrote about Darth Sidekys but I’m failing to understand how this applies to the thread topic.
Do these HILLARYBOTS really intend to INSTALL ILLARY AS
POTUS over our dead bodies? Is Illary REALLY that
INSANE? RABIDLY INSANE?
So true.
Truly more fake news.
Stay in your safe spaces, RATS and don't come out unless we call you!! 
This will all be moot when Trump & Pence start their victory tour around the country, beginning in Indianapolis, where 1000 grateful Carrier families ought to be kissing Trump’s feet for rescuing their jobs. What can the Democrats do to top his tour to the states they are trying to sabotage?
Fake news.
Soros is financing this scheme too.
He’s financed all the others ones so far including Jill Stein’s recounts, Jill Stein’s lawsuits, riots, etc.
Appointment of electors is in the hands of the legislatures of each state.
“I see very clearly how Rome slipped from a Republic into an Empire.”
You got that right. The Democrats are doing their best to cross the Rubicon. If and when they cross that barrier, civil war will erupt. My only advice to these liberal quislings is to be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
““So yes, I’d love to get rid of the Electoral College,””
So yes, I’d love to establish a dictatorship of California and New York...
As Coronation Day looms, it will become worse for them.
This may be part of why Trump has to be careful to play nicer with the GOPe right now than some of us may wish...
Exactly what came to mind the day after the election and have been saying that to everyone in discussions since. We really did dodge a bullet. I just shudder to think what would have happened if Hillary and thousands more of her communist cadre had taken over the government. It would have been water the tree of liberty time. .
Well put.
In the seven stages of grief, Dems have moved to bargaining.
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