“The question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States. Why should a single state have the ability to make this determination not only for their own citizens but for the rest of the nation?”
—Elena Kagan
What?
Last I heard, A POTUS candidate need not win the State of Colorado to be elected president. Hell, they don’t even need to win the most votes.
The flip-side of Justice Kagan’s interrogative is why should a coalition of other states (it could ultimately come down to one), via a flawed, undemocratic, and frankly racist electoral college process, have the ability to foist federal autocracy upon Coloradans?
Isn’t limiting the Federal Government’s ability to impose on states rights a core principle of the Constitution?
This business of justices simply reading words in the Constitution followed by convenient, cop-out decisions without apparent regard for our Republic’s founding doctrines such as democracy and unalienable rights is infuriating, and an existential threat to the document, the institutions charged with upholding it, and democracy itself.