On 9/28/2020 5:07 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 1:30:56 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 9/28/2020 9:22 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:The GOP is interested in rushing this through so Don-the-Con t'Rump has a 6 to 3 "voting block" on SCOTUS. A point of concern are state legislatures overruling the popular vote and appointing Trump electors or simply throwing out results. This could well happen in red states that turn blue. There could then be states not returning electors or with state legislatures that mayappoint GOP electors. This would then go to the SCOTUSWould it? The Constitution provides that if no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes, then the House will elect the President from among the top three receiving electoral votes. In this election each state gets one vote...so Repugs would carry the vote. Similarly, the Senate selects a Vice President. I don't see SCOTUS having any part in this and given their make up they certainly will have no motive to intervene. BrentThe drop-dead date for the EC to vote (it never actually meets) is Dec 14, not Jan 2 when the new congress convenes. The D's would likely prefer the NEW House to vote for President, even though their electoral victory on Nov 3 might not be sufficient to defeat Trump). But my point is that the D's will likely object to the Dec 14 date, and since it's in FEDERAL statutory law (the first Monday after the second Tuesday in Dec), it will surely involve the USSC. In response to LC, the original flaw is not in the American people, but in the flawed document called the Constitution. Our Founders didn't trust "the People", so they invented the EC to prevent a popular vote. Soon we will likely be paying the consequences of this flaw. AG
The Founders weren't aiming to prevent a popular vote (of propertied white males). Their idea was that several states might well put forward a Presidential candidate and the electoral college would function the way party conventions used to...with bargaining and vote swapping. The founders didn't even foresee that the voting structure would force a two-party system.
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