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To: yesthatjallen

Easily struck down in the Federal courts.


3 posted on 06/21/2018 6:07:37 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yea, because folks are going to walk into a presidential election and not WRITE IN Trump because the state doesn’t have him on the ballot...

Stupid..... More tokenism


88 posted on 06/22/2018 7:13:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Gay State Conservative

>> Easily struck down in the Federal courts <<

Don’t think so. The U. S. Constitution says that each state’s LEGISLATURE shall decide how the state’s electoral votes are to be cast. The wording doesn’t even give the states’ governors and courts a say-so, as Scalia pointed out during litigation on the 2000 Florida recount.

This provision means for example that any state’s legislature could decide (1) that there shall be no popular vote for POTUS in the state and (2) that the state’s electoral votes shall be allocated to any natural-born U.S. citizen over age 35 whom the legislature might designate.

Of course, it ain’t gonna happen exactly that way. But on the other hand, I think it’s almost certain that a carefully crafted tax-return provision could pass constitutional muster.


90 posted on 06/22/2018 9:48:34 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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