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Progressives Are Now Trying To Use Courts To Undermine The Electoral College

After the 2016 election, people on the left launched an initiative to remove the Electoral College system of choosing the president. They want large liberal states like California and New York to decided elections through popular vote. They failed to do it through legislation, so now they’re trying to do it through the courts.

The Daily Signal reports:

Progressive Activists Look to Courts to Undermine the Electoral College

Having failed to generate enough support to abolish the Electoral College through a constitutional amendment, the institution’s detractors are now looking to the courts to upend it.

A new lawsuit, spearheaded by Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig and filed in four states, charges that the “winner-take-all” element of how states divvy up their […]

 

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