Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws

Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by tathougies on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:50PM (#23423422)

This is illegal. The constitution mandates that each state must offer its residents representative democracy. If a state apportions electors based on the results of another state that is basing their election on the votes of residents of another state, which means the voters of the state in question are being disenfranchised.

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Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by Klathmon on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:24PM (#23423686)

According to the wiki article above that doesn't seem to be the case:

> The Constitution reserves the choice of the precise manner for creating electors to the will of the state legislatures. It does not define or delimit what process a state legislature may use to create its state college of electors.

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Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws by tathougies on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:41AM (#23426010)

I would really suggest reading the Constitution. It's like 5 pages long, and really not difficult. It's so simple that really one ought to expect every American to be able to repeat all its clauses, even if they can't remember what goes where.

Nevertheless, Article IV, Section 4:

> The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

If a state is choosing electors based on voters not in the state, then the citizens of the state no longer have a republican form of government. The state cannot simply arbitrarily choose who to force their electors to vote for. The process must be a republican one somehow.

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