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Jul 6, 2020, 1:46 PM

SCOTUS says electrol college voters must vote for the state's popular winner. Sorry Liz.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-states-can-enforce-elector-pledges
Supreme Court rules states can sanction or remove ‘faithless' presidential electors
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws requiring those chosen for the Electoral College to back the popular winner in their state's presidential race.
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the best part of this...


Jul 6, 2020, 1:51 PM

is not necessarily the decision, but that they can all interpret the law the same way on something.

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On one hand, it's hard to believe that something this


Jul 6, 2020, 1:53 PM

simple resulting in a unanimous decision would even get heard by SCOTUS.

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That's not what SCOTUS said.


Jul 6, 2020, 1:52 PM

They said that states can enforce their elector's pledge. If a state chooses to have their electors vote in a way besides the state's popular vote, this decision does not say anything against that.

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Re: That's not what SCOTUS said.


Jul 6, 2020, 1:55 PM

Keep it up Maine and Nebraska.

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And in a rare double whammy decision


Jul 6, 2020, 1:54 PM

also declared the electoral college antiquated and useless?

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I think it's kind of antiquated, in that....


Jul 6, 2020, 1:58 PM

If it's just an automatic vote based on the votes within the state, why not just count up electoral votes, without going through the rigmarole of having actual human electors? The human element seems non-value-added.

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Re: I think it's kind of antiquated, in that....


Jul 10, 2020, 7:23 PM

It's a non-functioning historical organ, like the human appendix. Our nation evolved to where it no longer really uses it.

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
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Jul 6, 2020, 2:11 PM

Read a bit of the decisions. Good heavens, talk about a snoozer!

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