In an extraordinary conference call this morning with fellow Senate Republicans, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his Jan.Source: McConnell calls Jan. 6 certification his "most consequential vote"...
The rhetoric coming from the White House lately has been very concerning. The President has indicated that he may refuse to accept defeat in the November election, and use every tool at his disposal to undo the results.Source: Guest opinion: Legislatures picking electors to the Electoral College: It could not only happen, it almost did...
Update for August 26. Polling Quick Hits: Virginia (Biden 53, Trump 39) It is still tough to imagine that Virginia has pushed as far into the Democratic coalition of states over the last (at least) three cycles.Source: The Electoral College Map (8/26/20)...
This morning the Supreme Court unanimously rejected two challenges to the constitutionality of so-called “faithless elector” laws, which penalize or remove presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidate they have pledged to support.Source: Opinion analysis: Court upholds “faithless elector” laws...
A pair of faithless electors cases from 2016 have made their way to the Supreme Court. (Disclosure: I filed an amicus brief on behalf of myself in support of neither party here.) SCOTUSblog posts for Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca are here and here.Source: Oral argument analysis: Will the Tenth Amendment make a comeback in...
But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic.Source: The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College...
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Since the 2016 election, some Democrats have raged against the Electoral College as an anti-democratic institution that does not reflect the will of the people. Some Republicans have defended the institution as protecting the power of small states and preserving the federal system.Source: The Coming Reckoning Over the Electoral College...
