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The Supreme Court has agreed to address a challenge to the Electoral College
Aerican Thinker ^ | 1/18/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/18/2020 9:49:22 AM PST by antidemoncrat

Since then, Democrats have been bent on destroying the Electoral College by any means short of a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court has now agreed to take up one of Democrats' attacks on the Electoral College.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; oneweirdtrick; scotus
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To: Menehune56
#13: "I have to wonder how Chief Justice Roberts will opine."

I don't trust him as far as I can spit.
 

21 posted on 01/18/2020 10:13:58 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: antidemoncrat

From the article:

“The Supreme Court will take up appeals in two cases - from Washington state and Colorado - involving electors who decided to vote in the Electoral College process for someone other than Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 even though she won the popular vote in their states.

The justices will determine if such so-called faithless electors have the discretion to cast Electoral College votes as they see fit or whether states can impose restrictions including with penalties. The case is expected to be argued in April and decided by the end of June.:


22 posted on 01/18/2020 10:14:43 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Teacher317

The RNC isn’t exactly on our side.

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What has the GOP ever done to reduce government spending and the size of government? The truth is that, despite what they tell us before every election, they love big government.


23 posted on 01/18/2020 10:17:46 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Menehune56

CJ Roberts has the same model of brain implant as Obammy and Biden.


24 posted on 01/18/2020 10:18:28 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: antidemoncrat

I would LOVE to see the EC get repealed and then Trump wins the popular vote and they find out if the EC was still used their candidate would have won instead. Bwa ha ha ha!


25 posted on 01/18/2020 10:18:47 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Out of the depths of leftist hell, I cry to you oh lord!)
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To: Parley Baer

Thank you for that lucid and concise explanation.


26 posted on 01/18/2020 10:19:57 AM PST by Starboard
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To: TexasGator

“Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a dispute involving the complex U.S. presidential election system focusing on whether Electoral College electors are free to break their pledges to back the candidate who wins their state’s popular vote, an act that could upend an election.”


27 posted on 01/18/2020 10:30:41 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: antidemoncrat

The democrats ‘THINK’ way ahead. I would not be surprised if Roberts sells us out.


28 posted on 01/18/2020 10:32:21 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: TexasGator
Thank you.

Blogs that run sensationalist headlines misrepresenting their content are extremely annoying. Especially because so many people apparently react to the wording of a headline without actually reading the article in question.

29 posted on 01/18/2020 10:35:13 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: antidemoncrat

There is only one way the SC can find in this case. FOR the Electoral College. You can’t get any more constitutional that what’s spelled out in the constitution! This should end the controversy once and for all. I emphasize “should”.


30 posted on 01/18/2020 10:39:10 AM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: TexasGator

Thanks for that link.


31 posted on 01/18/2020 10:41:15 AM PST by simpson96
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To: antidemoncrat

The Electoral College is unconstitutional. Everybody knows that. /s


32 posted on 01/18/2020 10:42:45 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: FrdmLvr

I wouldn’t be too sure. You know how the 4 libs will vote. Roberts will have to do what the democrat extortionists tell him to do. Like declare Obamacare constitutional.


33 posted on 01/18/2020 10:45:04 AM PST by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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To: antidemoncrat

No electoral college: Voter Fraud anywhere = Voter Fraud everywhere.

This is the goal. Super Blue majorities can just rack up all the fraud they want, all the illegals, dead, etc. to control all future elections.

These dummies don’t realize you can vote yourself into it, but others will shoot their way out.


34 posted on 01/18/2020 10:45:08 AM PST by Malsua
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To: antidemoncrat
The 12th amendment says this:

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot ...and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;

The reasonable person has to assume that if the Electors were to "seal" the votes, this means it was meant to be kept secret until revealed at a joint session of Congress.

Why seal the votes if a state was to have an oversight on the results and a chance to negate? How could a state punish faithless Electors after the votes were revealed to a joint session of Congress at least a month later?

Any ruling from the Supreme Court could not possibly be relevant because the Constitution says that nobody knows the results of the Electoral College votes until they are opened in front of the entire Congress. At that point, there is no opportunity for a state or a court to intervene.

-PJ

35 posted on 01/18/2020 10:45:49 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: antidemoncrat

The SCROTUS has no standing. It can only be removed or amended via an amendment.

Not that the SCROTUS cares about the Constitution.


36 posted on 01/18/2020 10:50:10 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: antidemoncrat

Seven cities or five states will then determine the presidency; rule by anarchy.


37 posted on 01/18/2020 10:52:46 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me ,A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: antidemoncrat
The hope here is SCOTUS took Cert on both bc Alito and/or Gorsuch expressed an interest to Roberts for:


38 posted on 01/18/2020 11:04:33 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Poison Pill

Nah....if SCOTUS voided the whole thing, they’d void any authority they have to rule on law. Screw ‘em.


39 posted on 01/18/2020 11:08:06 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: antidemoncrat

Ruth Buzzi G. is itching to overthrow the Constitution


40 posted on 01/18/2020 11:26:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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