“Next we need them to forbid States demanding their electors ignore locally cast votes in favor of the national popular vote.”
There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids the states from directing the electors how to vote.
Good idea.
There are NO Federal constitutional restrictions AT ALL on what state legislators can require of their electors. None!
This is totally a state power.
Even so, it does NOT make sense in to allow ONE person’s vote to nullify the results of a Presidential election which is CONSTITUTIONALLY NOT based on the popular vote.
I’m told objecting to Social Security, Medicare, federal welfare programs, regulation of intrastate commerce, pretending the federal has right to make non-State Actors respect federal civil rights and so many other things because they aren’t constitutional makes me a kook.
The damnable progressives love Arbitrary government. They won’t let us have constitutional governance. It’s their petard ... let us hoist them by it.
“There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids the states from directing the electors how to vote.”
The US Constitution does not work that way. It works by defining what the Federal and State governments are allowed to do, not by defining what they are not allowed to do. It can’t be otherwise, because it would be impossible to list every possible disallowed action, creating a loophole of infinite size for all sorts of tyrannical actions.
Hamilton makes that explicit in Federalist #84.
There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids the states from directing the electors how to vote.