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Law professor, activist, citizen, father (in reverse order).

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  1. 50 minutes ago

    No trouble at all!

    Hey, , may I please trouble you to clarify this juxtapositional discordance?
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  2. 21 hours ago

    You are deeply confused, Mr. Fitton. The Constitution gives Congress the duty to set the "time" for the appointment of electors. Congress did that (3 USC 1): November 3. No state has the power now to select a new slate.

    Pennsylvania court decision against is a miscarriage of justice and nakedly political. Again, under the Constitution, it is ultimately up the Pennsylvania legislature to protect election integrity and appoint a clean slate of electors.
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  3. Nov 22

    “If” <> “is”; when you’re accusing thousands of ordinary people of treason, you need more evidence than wacko Rudy.

    Replying to @amackenz2048 @lessig
    When your democracy includes the kind of cheating that occurred, then what argument is there FOR it???
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  4. Nov 22

    The tense is important- whatever it was, Chiafalo changed what it is.

    Replying to @lessig
    Then there was also the fact that Trump was a totally unqualified sociopath. Isn't that exactly what the Electoral College was designed to prevent, not encourage?
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  5. Nov 22

    Guilty as charged.

    Replying to @lessig
    Wait - you mean the law changed (or really, was clarified by precedent that did not exist before) and your opinion of what is legal changed to follow # the new precedent?!?! You MONSTER.
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  6. Nov 22

    Where is that “right” stated? The Venezuelan constitution?

    Replying to @lessig
    Sure, buddy. But I hope you know that state legislatures DO have the right to go against the popular vote if they so decide.
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  7. Nov 22

    Faithless legislatures are as wrong after Chiafalo as faithless electors: the rule now (whatever it was originally) is, as Justice Kagan put it, “here, We the people rule.”

    Replying to @lessig
    yes, if you believe in electoral college, it's designed as check against dangerous or autocratic leader, electors have judgement. but a faithless elector is very different than a gerrymandered state legislature substituting its desire for the popular vote after the election
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  8. Nov 22

    Yes — Clinton had won the popular vote, and I argued that justified electors in switching their vote for her. BUT: (1) Trump has not won the popular vote, and (2) when I took this idea to the SCT, they said electors had no right to go against the popular vote.

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    Nov 20

    Today is , here is the movie I made for it -

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  10. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    But will you commit to voting against any slate of electors appointed against the will of the people?

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    Nov 20

    Sign our petition: Republican senators MUST respect the will of the people.

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  12. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    Please support this petition by Equal Citizens a group run by Lawrence Lessig: Call on Republican Senators to Support the Will of the People

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  13. Nov 19

    They have not given up. We can't give up either.

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  14. Nov 19

    Sign our petition, and we'll help you reach out to the most likely democracy-saving GOP Senators:

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  15. Nov 19

    We need 10 GOP Senators — NOW — to commit that they won't count the votes of electors chosen against the vote of the people in any state.

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  16. Nov 19

    But this argument won't be decided by law. It will be decided by politics.

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  17. Nov 19

    I've been arguing why this move is illegal. See, e.g.,

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  18. Nov 19

    Ok, so now they're saying the silent part out loud — the only strategy they have left is to get GOP state legislatures to pick GOP slates of electors against the vote of their own people.

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    Sidney Powell: "The entire election, frankly, in all the swing states should be overturned and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump"
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  19. Nov 19

    This is a brilliantly comprehensive piece: Could GOP states ignore voters and send Trump delegates to the Electoral College?

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    Nov 18

    Stop the madness: Sign our petition to demand Republican Senators commit that they will not recognize the votes from any slate of electors that has been appointed to override the votes from a slate properly elected under state law.

    Why is wrong about the power of state legislatures:
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