So Maine is attempting to legislate a command for the EC to be UNFAITHFUL upon political command? And no one considered that to be disenfranchising or fascist/totalitarian in the least....especially the supposed party of EQUALITY?
Again.....a misunderstanding of the constitution by these Maine Legislators? Unfaithful electors that refuse to reflect the will of a state's people, regardless of how a state decides to appoint those EC electors, would be considered "DISENFRANCHISNG" when ordered via state legislation. Have they not read and comprehended the articles set forth in the constitution in relation to the Electoral College? Even if the people do not directly vote for the president and vice president their votes are distributed in an equal and fair manner. Then we must consider the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution...
The 15th Amendment PROHIBITS, "...the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based upon a citizen's race, color or previous condition of servitude."
Conclusion as provided via Scotus Opinion and precedent? "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or ABRIDGED...…….."
Abridged: Condensed, Shortened, via REWRITING. Disenfranchising is disenfranchising and its UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A state may have the right to change from one format to another in consideration of the Electoral College....but no state has the constitutional right to demand their states votes not be counted toward the candidate of their choice via ordering their EC electors to be UNFAITHFUL on command. What's the point of having any state represented via the EC.....if a state can ignore the constitution and the right of every citizen regardless of, race, color, etc., to cast their votes and have them counted?
As I said, this will not stand in the court system. Again simply apply the smell test in the SCOTUS decision and precedent established under U.S. Term Limits Inc. v. Thornton. If the court determines that a state has added extra qualifications to any federal candidate or taken away from any constitutional text through attempted state legislation in order to effect any federal election....THAT AUTHORITY DOES NOT EXIST. -- John P. Stevens
Maine can join any conglomerate they wish and cast their EC votes through proxy of their EC electors.....but they cannot order on command any EC elector to be "UNFAITHFUL" to their states guaranteed REPRESENTATION as clearly defined in Article 4, Section 4, Clause 1. What's representative about being unfaithful to one's representative oaths and constitutional guarantees? As I said, it not only smells like fascism, totalitarianism and hate induced legislation....its UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS HELL.
That damn constitution thingy is always getting in the way of these Social Justice Warriors that want to fundamentally change the United States of America from a constitutional republic to a socialist republic and wink while calling it a DEMOCRACY. Maine is proving just how DEMOCRATIC the democrats in that state are.....via demanding UNFAITHFUL representation of the states will.
But....in the end.....will it make a difference? Maine is so blue one's piss turns green when you attempt to write your name in the snow.....it is populated mostly via people on fixed incomes and retirees that have bought into the propaganda that someone is going to take away their checks if they don't vote a certain way.....right now those 65 years of age an older is a growing demography while those in their 20s is a shrinking demography.
All this bullshit hate and TDS because TRUMP squeezed out one EC vote?
So the politicians on the left got together and said, "Lets enact some kneejerk legislation without considering its constitutionality or long term effects on our citizens." Its who they are, its what they do...….its like they have a short circuit between their brains ability to have a logical and reasonable thought and their emotions.
