Constitutional trouble for Colorado’s National Popular Vote scheme
Two new SCOTUS decisions make it clear NPV violates the Colorado Constitution.
The Electoral College in Context
The Electoral College is a necessary part of a wider presidential election system, which in turn is the result of many factors, not just a few.
Congress’s new attack on democracy & the Constitution
Sometimes “our democracy” just doesn’t seem to matter.
Our Quadrennial National Convention: The Electoral College
The baseless argument that a “national convention can do anything” never has had any force with the national convention known as the Electoral College.
How state legislatures can break the power of corrupt big-city politics in presidential elections -4th in a series
District voting for presidential electors in [key swing] states would . . . isolate corruption to particular electoral districts;
Don’t let them divert us from ensuring electoral integrity!—1st in a series
I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I know a diversion when I see one.
The new mainstream media tactic: Keep ‘em ignorant
The [Electoral College] has protected us against highly fractured results and purely regional candidates in almost every election since 1824.
The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse
If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated
“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
A defense of the Electoral College
“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
Video: Rob Natelson and Jon Caldara discuss “Nat’l Popular Vote” & protecting the Electoral College’s integrity
Rob explains why II submitted a Supreme Court brief to protect presidential elector discretion and why the National Popular Vote Compact is a terrible idea
Two new briefs in the Supreme Court’s Electoral College case
[The integrity of presidential electors] has taken on great urgency as “progressive” state legislatures increasingly meddle with free elections.
