Can they do this? The US constitution can be crumpled up like this?
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I am curious about this, as well.
Can a law made with the specific, expressed purpose of subverting the Constitution possibly hold up in a court challenge?
All they need is one Conservative judge to incorrectly determine that the state can do “anything it wants” with its Electoral Votes.
I suspect this will last exactly as long as it takes for a Republican to win the Popular Vote, though.
> Can they do this? <
Yes, it seems like they can. The Constitution gives the states great latitude in deciding how they will assign their electoral votes.
So if you believe in the giving the states as much power as possible, then you’ve got to accept that this is constitutional. Stupid, yes. But not unconstitutional.
>>Can they do this? The US constitution can be crumpled up like this?<<
Nope. It will never hold up against a constitutional challenge before the SCOTUS.
It’s all a dog and pony show.
Compacts such as this between states are unconstitutional.
Serious legal hurdles precede this ever coming to fruition eventually likely to be struck down by SCOTUS.
The U.S. Constitution allows each state to determine the method by which its electors are chosen. Therefore, if a state such as Maine were to seriously desire to become irrelevant, it could decide to apportion its electors according to the U.S. popular vote. Why someone would want to publicly tell the world they really don’t care what happens, or that its population is too stupid to make decisions, is another question.
It’s called tyranny of the government (see Russia, China,Iran, etc etc etc).
State legislatures can direct their electors to vote any way the State legislatures want.
Pacts and coalitions of states are unconstitutional.
Imagine election night 2020 on TV if this were to take effect:
“We project Biden will easily win the states of Maine and Massachusetts.”
A few hours later: “Trump will apparently win the popular vote so we change the colors of these states from blue to red as they are part of the National Vote Compact.”
AL Gore; “the US Constitution is a living document”. Thus, it means what the democrats say it means.
“Can they do this? The US constitution can be crumpled up like this?”
I would think any law that forces electors to vote against their will is unconstitutional.