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Sorry, Vice-President Pence can’t replace electors on his own 0
- January 3, 2021
“[T]he failure of the Trump legal team and its allies to understand the Constitution’s rules on presidential elections has cost them dearly. They have evidence of fraud and other election irregularities. But they have not used that evidence well.”
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Supreme Court curbs the COVID police 0
- December 29, 2020
The most memorable opinion was written by Justice Gorsuch. In joining the majority, he reminded us that “Government is not free to disregard the First Amendment in times of crisis.”
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The new mainstream media tactic: Keep ‘em ignorant 0
- November 24, 2020
The [Electoral College] has protected us against highly fractured results and purely regional candidates in almost every election since 1824.
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Even with Amy Coney Barrett, we don’t really have a conservative Supreme Court 0
- November 24, 2020
At the close of every annual court term, commentators express surprise that so many of the court’s decisions over the previous year have been liberal. They never make the simple deduction that if the court is producing so many liberal decisions, then perhaps it is not “conservative” after all.
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Is the Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett Unconstitutional?0
- October 20, 2020
[T]he statements by Biden, Leahy, and Feingold are flatly incorrect. The current proceedings are neither “unconstitutional” nor “illegitimate” nor an attempt to “steal” anything.
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The Electoral College: The target of politicians who would make things worse 0
- May 14, 2020
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.
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