...in two states that Trump never would have won anyway. It's absolutely the right thing to do and I hope more states follow suit as ultimately that would force the GOP to kick Trump off the ballot as well.
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Why is this even a thing. If dude wasn't a member of the 1% and laws applied as should be usual, he'd be in jail.
I understand the frustration in watching him waltz around unfazed after what he did, but we've never had to apply this law before. We need to get this right the first time. We can't afford to fuck up applying this law, and not fucking it up takes time.
Both the richest and poorest of people are equally prohibited from sleeping under a bridge.
A rich person could probably easily get a permit to do so and pay people to do anything needed for it
This should definitely end up at the U. S. Supreme Court. This is for a federal position, so it should be decided at a federal level.
Unfortunately that's not how it works because of the electoral college. You're ultimately voting to choose your state's electors. It's up to each and every state to decide the process for choosing their electors.
Electors; those people threatened, stalked and harassed by gun-clutcher Trump cultists? Those guys?
I'm in favour of removing that role, now that it's changed from "valuable last-ditch crazy-dictator prevention mechanism" to "go hug your kids and do what we say".
There are a number of republicans that would disagree. Thankfully, they've been told no.
The independent state legislature theory or independent state legislature doctrine (ISL) is a judicially rejected legal theory that posits that the Constitution of the United States delegates authority to regulate federal elections within a state to that state's elected lawmakers without any checks and balances from state courts, governors, or other bodies with legislative power (such as constitutional conventions or independent commissions).
If that fails I suggest we also add any other previously tried criminal that we see as fit to be our president. In a country having hundreds of thousands of perfectly good Americans that don't commit crimes, sure, let's give criminals a venue to better adjusting their freedoms.