What exactly does it mean to be a pledged elector (AIUI different states have different degrees of enforcement, but it's not clear to me who can, except in the case of the nominee actually dying, release them from it)
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SCOTUS ruled unanimously that state governments enforcing pledged electors via monetary fines is totally constitutional, and I guess implicitly thinks this is good enough for keeping presidential elections democratic
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Like, the electors could all meet in a room and just randomly decide they want Kanye West to be the President, and they could theoretically do it, and maybe they'd all lose their houses and even go to prison afterwards, but constitutionally we'd still have President Kanye West
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Pretty sure Lessig is not promoting “abolishing the college.”
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