Here’s hoping the old jalopy can get us through the November 2020 election — and the presidential transition that one can only hope will follow in January.This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.It would be a disaster if the Electoral College could override the will of the voters.Protesters hoped the Electoral College would overturn the 2016 presidential election result.For now, however, the good news is that Thomas and Gorsuch were not feeling so radical as to invite distortion of the presidential election by random electors who might hope to hijack the process.Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, agreed with the result.
It would be good for the other 35 to follow suit.But this view is a little worrisome. Download the 2020 calendar here .
The conservative-majority court will issue rulings on a range of high-profile issues during the course of the term.
It needs repairs.
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia September 2020 Calendar and Docket. Motion days in the 2020 Fall Session are scheduled, subject to change, for: September 8, 2020 October 6, 2020 November 3, 2020 December 1, 2020 But when you have an old Constitution like ours, sometimes the best thing isn’t to buy a new one but to bring the old one into the shop and have expert mechanics do their best to help it run safely.The decision is important because it will help avoid an election disaster in which a few electors try to thwart the will of the people. In a moment of deep uncertainty about making the 2020 presidential election work, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck a blow for stability and common sense. Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts. October Term 2020; October Term 2019; October Term 2018; October Term 2017; October Term 2016; ... Calendar of Events ← June 2020 August 2020 → Event List Calendar. Protesters hoped the Electoral College would overturn the 2016 presidential election result.When an outcome garners the support of all the justices, it can be easy to forget why the issue is important enough to make it to the court the first place. Like most states’ rights arguments, Thomas’s could be extended to enable the states to resist the federal government. Thomas, who loves states’ rights, essentially concludes that sanctioning electors is an inherent sovereign right of the states.The Electoral College system is wildly outdated.
The presidential election is a federal undertaking governed by the Constitution.
In the faithless elector case, the reason the justices had to weigh in is an ambiguity in the Electoral College system.Justice Elena Kagan, joined by six of her colleagues, held that Article II of the Constitution resolves the issue by stating that each state may select electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” That language, she held, gives broad authority to the state legislature to figure out how it will choose electors, and that authority logically allows states to direct the electors to vote according to their promise; to sanction them if they do not; and to replace them with different electors who will do the job right. June 2020 . for oral argument . It’s bad enough that the Electoral College system isn’t purely majoritarian as it currently functions. AMENDED 5-27-20 . In a 9-0
There are 15 states that already have such laws in place.
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Secession, the granddaddy of all states-rights arguments, was also based on the theory of an inherent sovereign right of the states to dissolve the bonds of the union.Because the electors are selected individually, a few of them over the years have entertained the idea that they, not the voters who chose them, should be allowed to decide for whom they will cast their ballots. The Court will sometimes take a short recess following the first case in the morning and the first case in the afternoon. Logically, there could be no pre-existing sovereign right of states to choose electors in a process that did not come into existence until the Constitution created it.
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Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia June 2020 Calendar and Docket.
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