Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun...
by ledauphin on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:54PM
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maybe, but according to the same Constitution that creates the existing system, this should be perfectly legal. Ultimately each state gets to send Electors for the President on its own terms.
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun...
by matthewdgreen on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:11AM
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However: several Supreme Court justices have signed on to the “independent state legislature” theory, a radical and unsupported interpretation which holds that state legislatures can’t be restricted in how they pick electors (even by their own laws and constitution.) I assume that if states actually adopted the NPV act, the court would instantly bypass it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_state_legislatur...