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LA Times Editorial: Electoral College Is Unconstitutional And Should Be Banned
dailycaller.com ^ | 12/16/16 | Blake Neff

Posted on 12/17/2016 8:57:48 AM PST by ColdOne

The Los Angeles Times has published an editorial arguing that the Electoral College shouldn’t be allowed to choose the next U.S. president, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

Needless to say, Kenneth Jost’s argument is a very bold one, since the Constitution explicitly creates the Electoral College and describes how it works; the system was even refined with the 12th Amendment. But Jost, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, says that’s no barrier to having the Supreme Court abolish the Electoral College by fiat.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: calexit; delusional; electoralcollege; fakenews; kennethjost; liberalagenda; losangelesslimes; realpropaganda
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To: BenLurkin

“The Constitution is unconstitutional?”

You’ve got to get inside these people’s minds and match their wavelength to understand them.

To a liberal, that not only makes sense, it’s sheer brilliance. Remember that they also believe the Constitution is a “living” document.


101 posted on 12/17/2016 9:37:05 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ColdOne

So something EMBEDDED in the Constitution is unconstitutional?

Can someone send the editorial board a textbook on logic?

No wonder they create #fakenews—they cannot THINK.


102 posted on 12/17/2016 9:37:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: ColdOne
OF COURSE, a California newspaper would say this. Take out California, and Trump won the popular vote. In other words, without the electoral college, California by itself could determine every President.

Liberalism is a mental disease.

103 posted on 12/17/2016 9:38:20 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: ColdOne
Morre evidence that calling liberal lefties insane is not merely an insult. It is the truth.
104 posted on 12/17/2016 9:39:16 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: ColdOne

What absolute lunatics...and seditionists.


105 posted on 12/17/2016 9:39:38 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: ColdOne

Since when can these brain-dead people understand that we are not a “democracy”. Even the ancient Greeks understood the danger in a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic which is essential for Individual natural rights not to be destroyed by a “majority”. As Marx stated, democracy creates socialism (slavery) which will create a totalitarian (communist) state. Socialist governments (like ours now) create slave mindsets-—lazy people who will prefer security to freedom. We have so many uneducated people who are “happy” to be entertained by TV 24/7 that we are becoming brain-dead.

Of course, the useful idiots want us all to be total slaves of the State so they can force their worldview of Slavery is Freedom, Men are Women and Vice is Virtue on us, so we become total slaves of the state and God can be eliminated so there is no such thing as individual Natural rights.

They need the individual destroyed for the collective mindset (group-think so individuals can be destroyed). That is why schools “group” everyone, reducing them to a vulgar sex act or whatever, so they can dehumanize people (reduce them to a group). It creates hate/dislike since we are tribal, social animals by nature.

Vice is slavery. You have as many masters as you have vices (St. Augustine). That is why vice is promoted to your children in TV and skools 24/7—to normalize an evil worldview—embed irrational emotions which will destroy Reason and Logic. Evil, immoral people are what makes a culture into a worthless, dumb, slave culture..


106 posted on 12/17/2016 9:39:48 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: theoilpainter

Like shooting fish in a barrel, ain’t it, oilpainter?


107 posted on 12/17/2016 9:40:05 AM PST by Walrus (2 Thessalonians 3, 10-12)
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To: abb
this clown actually TEACHES law school courses.

Doesn't that make him an "enemy domestic"?

Aren't we supposed to defend the Constitution against his ilk?

108 posted on 12/17/2016 9:41:15 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ColdOne

The EC is the very essence of the constitution. We are NOT the United persons of America rather we are the United STATES of America.


109 posted on 12/17/2016 9:41:16 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: ColdOne

Well, since almost ALL of the suck up media says that the EC is unconstitutional then I guess it must be true.

Pffft...nothing but a bunch of bed wetter’s and thumb suckers.


110 posted on 12/17/2016 9:41:23 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Are liberals in Orwell’s 1984? Words don’t really mean why they mean and all that?”

Ever heard of the “living” Constitution?


111 posted on 12/17/2016 9:41:58 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BenLurkin
The Constitution is unconstitutional?

That's pretty much the gist of it.

Who knew?

112 posted on 12/17/2016 9:42:00 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: theoilpainter
Part of the Constitution cannot be unconstitutional by definition.

It is to people who define "constitutional" as whatever they want it to be.

113 posted on 12/17/2016 9:42:06 AM PST by southern rock
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To: Mr. Mojo

Does “bold” mean “insane” in newspeak? The guy is a lunatic and major idiot.


114 posted on 12/17/2016 9:42:08 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: ColdOne
Question for the LA Times: How can a provision in the Constitution be called "unconstitutional"?

LA Times, you need your heads examined by medically qualified experts!

115 posted on 12/17/2016 9:42:37 AM PST by Rapscallion (The opposite of charity is justice. I favor justice every time.)
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To: Jyotishi

#FakeNews


116 posted on 12/17/2016 9:43:19 AM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: ColdOne

Two words....”adjunct professor”


117 posted on 12/17/2016 9:45:09 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: theoilpainter
I think Bubba said, "It all depends if the meaning of "unconstitutional" is unconstitutional."

118 posted on 12/17/2016 9:45:23 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN)
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To: ColdOne

Actually the constitution worked as designed. Clinton won California and she got the electoral votes. The popular vote is a discussion tool only and irrelevant to our electoral process.

But if they want to go there, I would suggest a national ID card in the form of a passport that gets scanned when you vote. You have to be a US citizen. Now if they complain about that you know their real intention.


119 posted on 12/17/2016 9:45:45 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Fake news.


120 posted on 12/17/2016 9:45:57 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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