Lovely, Trump will get Nevada, ME and CO’s EC votes regardless of how the citizens of those states actually vote in 2020... AWESOME.
So, they can just vote away the Constitution. Well, give them another 20 years and they will be talking about, “Remember when we had a Constitutional government? Those were really the good old days.”
Not yet though. And this vote is as useless as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer sharing their single brain cell to come up with a good idea.
People in far away states shouldn’t get to decide for us who we want to be president.
- The twelve legislators just voted to possibly overrule the will of 1.5 million registered voters who they claim to represent in favor of whoever California and New your voters want... Apparently.
AKA the “Don’t bother voting” act.
Cowards.
These people don’t seem to care if they destroy our republic, they just want power.
It is unconstitutional and does not matter. Nevada is a definite place where martial law must be implemented.
Unconstitutional.
USSC here we come.
They will be sorry they opened this can of worms. It will be delicious when Trump wins the 2020 popular vote and all these blue/purple states go to him. Doh!
Democrats can’t win without making “special” extra constitutional laws.
So basically they are saying individual and majority votes in their states no longer matter. Got it.
IOWs, you could theoretically have like three or more candidates, and the winner might have the most votes of the three, but not the majority of all votes cast.
Democrat politicians? Try’em, hang’em, be done with it, they’re all scumbags breaking their oaths.
Consider that during the Reagan Mondale election Reagan swept all the states except Minnesota. Under this plan Minnesota’s electoral votes would have been cast for Reagan. While this end run around the electoral college is unconstitutional, if implemented it could backfire on Democrats.
Don’t mean squat. The republic stands.
If the Dems nominate someone sufficiently whacko Trump stands a high likelihood of winning the popular vote.
Exploding Heads Ahead!!
It is likely the Conservatives would grumble and take it but Liberals would riot and generally act the fool.
Heads, Conservatives lose - Tails, fools win.
Ray v Blair 1952 seems to be the only time that SCOTUS ruled on a similar issue. This involved whether a political party could compel its electors to vote for the party's chosen candidate during a primary election, or whether they can vote as free agents. The decision allows parties to restrict how their electors vote.
The current laws that states are passing are quite different since these concern general elections and not party primaries. I suspect that Justice Jackson's dissent in Ray v Blair will carry more weight when these "end-around the Constitution" laws get challenged.
SCOTUS better rule on this quickly so that we don't have a debacle in 2020 when the Left tries to steal the election with this scam.
IIRC, an interstate compact requires Cogressional approval.
“. Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides that “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” Consent can be obtained in one of three ways. First, there can be a model compact and Congress can grant automatic approval for any state wishing to join it, such as the Driver License Compact. Second, states can submit a compact to Congress prior to entering into the compact. Third, states can agree to a compact then submit it to Congress for approval, which, if it does so, causes it to come into effect. Not all compacts between states require explicit Congressional approval – the Supreme Court ruled in Virginia v. Tennessee that only those agreements which would increase the power of states at the expense of the federal government required it.”