[usconservative]

I have the same question. Faithless Electors (those who go against their state's "will" via the states vote) can be outlawed by the State, but what about when a state SANCTIONS faithless electors via the National Popular Vote compact some states have entered into?

[rlmorel]

Yes. The “Popular Vote Compact” is the next big crisis as I see it. It needs to be declared unconstitutional.

[kabar]

Right. This decision could actually help that movement if SCOTUS means that the electors’ vote is bound by the state legislature and Executive who have passed these laws.

[discostu]

It strengthens it. Remember the Constitution says the state legislature decides how to assign their EC votes. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with popular vote, on any level. They can just tell electors how to vote. They could flip a coin. They could make it dependent on the weather. Or a sporting event. Whatever they want, however they want, just so long as it happens on the approved schedule. And this reiterates that the Electors have to do what their legislature tells them too.