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2016 Postmortem

red dog 1

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3. K&R

Reply to The Sushi Bandit (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 05:31 PM

Dec 2016

Too bad Hillary Clinton hasn't already challenged the election, based on the Bush v Gore decision, as Lawrence Lessig writes.

Lessig sums up the Clinton campaign's lack of any post-election legal action well:
"It's striking to see how committed they are to allowing this train wreck to occur."

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Hillary Clinton could have legal right to challenge electoral college system [View all] The Sushi Bandit Dec 2016 OP

The electoral college is part of the Constitution, it is by definition Constitutional Amishman Dec 2016 #1

Other parts of the Constitution can override the Electoral College. Equal justice. Coyotl Dec 2016 #4

Presumably the argument is that the Electoral College violates the Equal Protection Clause Jim Lane Dec 2016 #5

Maine and Nebraska HassleCat Dec 2016 #2

you are conflating assigning EV's per congressional district with actual proportional representation Grey Lemercier Dec 2016 #7

That's the way it is now. HassleCat Dec 2016 #9

K&R red dog 1 Dec 2016 #3

Maybe she could, but she won't. I'd just about stake my life on it. Crunchy Frog Dec 2016 #6

She's not even challenging the Michigan vote totals, which by accounts reported had a huge amount... dmosh42 Dec 2016 #8

Please someone actually read sarisataka Dec 2016 #10