WTF ?!?!? A court ruling just changed how we pick our president
Aug 21, 2019 21:18:51 #
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/faithless-e*****r-a-court-ruling-just-changed-how-we-pick-our-president/ar-AAG8tdZ?ocid=spartandhp
A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that p**********l e*****rs who cast the actual b****ts for president and vice president are free to v**e as they wish and cannot be required to follow the results of the popular v**e in their states.
The decision could give a single e*****r the power to decide the outcome of a p**********l e******n — if the popular v**e results in an apparent E*******l College tie.
"This issue could be a ticking time bomb in our divided politics. It's not hard to imagine how a single faithless e*****r, v****g differently than his or her state did, could swing a close p**********l e******n," said Mark Murray, NBC News senior political editor.
A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that p**********l e*****rs who cast the actual b****ts for president and vice president are free to v**e as they wish and cannot be required to follow the results of the popular v**e in their states.
The decision could give a single e*****r the power to decide the outcome of a p**********l e******n — if the popular v**e results in an apparent E*******l College tie.
"This issue could be a ticking time bomb in our divided politics. It's not hard to imagine how a single faithless e*****r, v****g differently than his or her state did, could swing a close p**********l e******n," said Mark Murray, NBC News senior political editor.
Aug 21, 2019 21:27:22 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
This will end up at the SCOTUS.
Aug 21, 2019 21:28:26 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
1ProudAmerican wrote:
Buut isn't it good thing for President Trump????
Aug 21, 2019 21:29:00 #
Aug 21, 2019 21:35:35 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
It will get struck down. Witness the wearing off of liberal political Viagra...the Court will begin ruling against their ridiculous demands.
Aug 21, 2019 22:10:12 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
That was the purpose of the e*******l college, to act as a foil to bad choices. But you apparently believe that a state's e*******l should all go to the popular v**e and disregard the population that didn't v**e for them? Let the e*******l be split according to popular v**e, the GOP is dead because they are controlling states with minority GOP v**ers. Democracy is about majority rule, not minority.
Aug 21, 2019 22:11:27 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
This will end up at the SCOTUS.
And you think it is a biased court so it will fail?
Aug 21, 2019 22:19:18 #
woodguru wrote:
That was the purpose of the e*******l college, to act as a foil to bad choices.
sureasheckdidthislaste******n
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But you apparently believe that a state's e*******l should all go to the popular v**e and disregard the population that didn't v**e for them?
iftheyknowwhatsgoodforthemyeah
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Let the e*******l be split according to popular v**e, the GOP is dead because they are controlling states with minority GOP v**ers. Democracy is about majority rule, not minority.
letsnotandsaywedid
Dems are about Majority Cruel and it's a good thing your i***t party is dying the death of ten thousand self inflicted cuts because the alternative would be worse! It's a gory pleasure to watch.
When Democrats are free of the Klinton Kurse they may eventually recover.
Aug 21, 2019 22:49:02 #
Aug 21, 2019 23:09:44 #
Boo_Boo
Loc: Jellystone
1ProudAmerican wrote:
They changed nothing!!!!!!!!, have you read the Constitution (Amendment 12)? In history, "faithless e*****rs" have v**ed 152 times against the popular state v**e choice. Yes, it has changed the outcome of e******ns; in 1872, 63 Democratic Party e*****rs decided they could not v**e for Horace Greeley, who had died shortly after the e******n but before the E*******l College count. The second-highest number of faithless e*****rs in one e******n happened in 1832, and it was against a vice-p**********l candidate, Martin Van Buren. In 2016, there were a number of faithless e*****rs; David Bright (ME - Bernie Sanders), Muhammad Abdurrahman (MN - Bernie Sanders), Michael Baca (CO - John Kasich), Esther John (WA - Colin Powell), Levi Guerra (WA - Colin Powell), Bret Chiafalo (WA - Colin Powell), Robert Satiacum (WA - Faith Spotted Eagle), and David Mulinix (HI - Bernie Sanders), v**ed for Trump. The two Republican e*****rs were Chris Suprun (TX - John Kasich) and Bill Greene (TX - Ron Paul) v**ed for k**lary.
Aug 21, 2019 23:30:33 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
SCOTUS will put this to bed. But it is amazing that this kind of drivel actually reaches the SCOTUS today...
Aug 22, 2019 00:44:54 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
We aren't a democracy remember. Only democracies follow majority rule...
Aug 22, 2019 01:19:45 #
PeterS wrote:
We aren't a democracy remember. Only democracies follow majority rule...
We are a Republic, Pete. Always have been...always will be.
Republic: A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
Aug 22, 2019 05:23:26 #
1ProudAmerican wrote:
Ninth circuit?
Aug 22, 2019 05:31:24 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
1ProudAmerican wrote:
No state is required to v**e in any matter whatsoever. I read that piece. It's ridiculous. No state is even required to have an e******n.
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