re: #83 EPR-radar

The Trump argument that the state legislators can pick their own electors is a farce.

It’s like arguing that majority members of a state legislature can commit murder with impunity because they could (theoretically) pass a law to make murder done in their state by majority members of the legislature legal.

Anything the state legislatures do with electors without first taking that power back into their own hands legally is null and void.

From Article 2 of the Constitution:

“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”

There is nothing in there about a Governor having to approve this. Yes, each state has a law specifying that the electors are chosen by popular vote. But SCOTUS is stacked with originalists who may very well revert to the explicit text of the Constitution. The Republican Party has repeatedly shown that all it cares about is power and wealth. We are in uncharted waters here and may be witnessing the death of our republic, with the full approval of 73 million of our fellow Americans.

Either the Republican Party stops this now or we will not recover.