Federal Court: State Cannot Bind Presidential Electors

[corbe]

Federal Court: State Cannot Bind Presidential Electors

Ruling could impact liberal efforts at Electoral College workaround

Todd Shepherd - August 21, 2019 3:45 PM

A panel of federal judges with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals handed down a 2-1 ruling saying the state of Colorado was wrong in 2016 to force a presidential elector to cast his vote for Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College.

State law in Colorado mandates that presidential electors cast their Electoral College vote for the candidate receiving the most votes statewide, which in that instance was Hillary Clinton.

In 2016, however, elector Micheal Baca tried to cast his vote for Ohio's then-governor, Republican John Kasich, as part of a short-lived movement to circumvent Trump's election in a kind of compromise. Supporters of the idea hoped enough electors would defect to Kasich to deny Trump the presidency — arguing Trump was too unstable or dangerous — but would still have given Republicans control of the executive branch rather than handing that power to Democrats.

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https://freebeacon.com/politics/federal-court-state-cannot-bind-presidential-electors/

[Fishrrman]

Federal Court?
That's not good enough.

Has to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Methinks they might try to sidestep the issue...

[PeteS in CA]

That Electors could vote for someone other than whoever they are "committed to" is nothing new. It's happened a few times across the couple of centuries.

What's ironic is that this lawsuit was over a law mandating that Electors vote as their state did, for Hillary Clinton, when at the same time many Dems/Libs/Progs (and Never-Trumpers? ) were urging "Trump Electors" to vote against him. Hypocrite much?