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To: LS

What are you current thoughts on the popular vote? 9 States now have the popular vote law and 18 more trying to pass it.


14 posted on 07/14/2020 6:34:11 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

1) I think Trump wins the pop vote. When that happens, you’ll see the lefties rescind & repeal these “compact” votes faster than Newsome can lock down a healthy city.

2) The “compact” is meaningless until 279 electoral votes’ worth of states sign it. But even then, it means nothing until/unless actually enacted. (The legal principle of “moot-ness,” i.e., you can’t challenge a law until there is a real harm-—it’s the reason the USSC refused to hear the NYC gun case, because it was moot. NYC repealed it, so no one actually suffered a harm).

The Court will NOT act on hypothetical harms. So a case against this will not go anywhere until someone loses an election in which one person wins the popular vote, loses a “compact” state, has the compact put in force, and a legal challenge is issued. One would hope this would be expedited and settled as was Bush v. Gore before the electors are counted.

So don’t hold your breath waiting for a court challenge, and don’t worry about the “compact” states until their number reaches 279 worth of states.


15 posted on 07/15/2020 8:50:12 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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