by jpitney | Apr 20, 2023 | Elections, Electoral College, Vice President
Joseph M. Bessette and Gary J. Schmitt have a report at AEI titled Counting Electoral Votes: How the Constitution Empowers Congress—and Not the Vice President—to Resolve Electoral Disputes Key Points The vice president does not have “plenary” authority under the...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2022 | Elections, Electoral College, Vice President
At AEI, Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt find no support for the view that the Vice President has unilateral constitutional authority to resolve electoral vote disputes. Our analysis proceeds in four stages. First, we show that the framers viewed the Vice Presidency...
by jpitney | Oct 13, 2022 | Debate, Elections, Electoral College
Resolution: This House Should Abolish the Electoral College Thu, October 13, 2022 Dinner Program Aditya Pai ’13 and Ilan Wurman ‘09; moderator, Nohl Patterson ’22 In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election...
by jpitney | Jul 21, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Elections, Electoral College, Presidency
From Senator Sudan Collins: Today, after months of bipartisan negotiations led by U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), two proposals were introduced which include legislation to reform and modernize the outdated Electoral Count Act of 1887 to...
by jpitney | Jan 21, 2022 | Elections, Electoral College
[On Jan 13] Committee on House Administration Chairperson Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) released a Committee Staff Report on the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA). The report, compiled over a months-long review, examines the ECA and argues it is badly in need of reform. Part...
by jpitney | May 6, 2021 | civic virtue, Congress, Constitution, Election Security, Elections, Electoral College
Liz Cheney: I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken. More than 60 state and federal courts,...
