1. The faithless-elector decision is, its legal merits aside, a healthy development for the fall elections. States can, of course, allow faithless electors, but long tradition has taught Americans & their candidates to assume that the winner of a state's vote gets its electors.
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10. "Electors contend that elector discretion is needed to deal with the possibility that a future presidential candidate will die between Election Day and the Electoral College vote....We do not dismiss how much turmoil such an event could cause." That happened in 1872.
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11. As I read the opinions, Thomas & Gorsuch, by vesting all residual authority over electors in the state legislature, would give legislatures the power to follow, say, the national popular vote compact. Kagan's Art II analysis should, too, but...
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12. ...Kagan's opinion has some escape hatches talking about tradition, the power of the popular vote, other clauses in the Constitution. Its logic makes the state legislatures supreme, but maybe not unchecked:pic.twitter.com/SnJGM8IPHp
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