Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts
Monday, November 4, 2024

Electoral Count Act

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  Many  posts  have  discussed  the  legal aspects  of  elections . From CRS : The Electors Clause of the Constitution (Article II, Section...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Election Guardrails

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Many posts have discussed the legal aspects of elections .  Richard Pildes at Election Law Blog: As we get closer to the election, we will...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Americans Still Oppose the Electoral College

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Jocelyn Kiley at Pew: The Electoral College allocates a number of electors based on how many senators and representatives each state has i...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Counting Electoral Votes

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Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt have a report at AEI titled Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Contingent Election and the Death of a Candidate

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In response to the insurrection , Congress has fixed problems with the Electoral Count Act. But the system still has dangers. Suppose that...
Friday, January 6, 2023

January 6 and President Selection

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 From the J6 Committee: At the Constitutional Convention 233 years ago, the framers considered but rejected multiple proposals that Congre...
Friday, December 23, 2022

The Oath and Rusty Bowers

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  From the final report of the January 6 committee: In Arizona, a primary target of President Trump’s pressure , and ire, was House Speaker ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The VP and the Counting of Electoral Votes

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At AEI, Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt find no support for the view that the Vice President has unilateral constitutional authority to res...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Americans Want to Scrap the Electoral College

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Rebecca Salzer and Jocelyn Kiley  at Pew: Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (63%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so tha...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Pence on Overturning Elections

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

House Size and the Electoral College

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Keith Rothfus at National Affairs : Expanding the House would amplify those voices in our national government, thereby returning a greater ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Counting the Electoral Votes

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Today a joint session of Congress will count the electoral votes.  From CRS: The joint session does not act on any objections that are made....
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Nixon Announces that JFK Has Won

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On January 6, 1961, after the official counting of the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress, Vice President Richard Nixon announce...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Electoral Vote: What Happens Today

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 From CRS: December 14, 2020: Electors Vote in Their States Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years is...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Legislatures Cannot Override the Popular Vote

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Some crackpots are floating the idea that state legislatures should ignore the election outcome and select electors on their own. They canno...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Electoral Scenarios

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 Louis Jacobson at PolitiFact: What happens to a candidate if they die sometime before Election Day? The timing of a death matters. If the...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Americans Want to Abolish the Electoral College

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Megan Brenan at Gallup : Heading into the 2020 presidential election, three in five Americans favor amendin g the U.S. Constitution to repl...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Goodbye, Faithless Electors

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Syllabus: CHIAFALO ET AL. v. WASHINGTON 591 U. S. ____ (2020) No. 19–465. Argued May 13, 2020—Decided July 6, 2020 Held: A State may enf...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Americans Want to End the Electoral College

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Andrew Daniller at Pew: A majority of U.S. adults (58%) say the Constitution should be amended so the presidential candidate who receives ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

The Electoral College and Slavery

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At The New York Times , historian Sean Willentz revises a previous opinion, finding that the Framers did not devise the Electoral College f...