“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, ...”
Let’s talk about these words. These words in the US Constitution.
While the 12th Amendment amplifies Article 2, Section 1, it does not repeal “… in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct … .” Read the law for yourself.
Therefore, can these words establish a non-democratic system to elect our President, especially in the light of a Supreme Court that reduced our freedom in Dobbs?
A decision wherein Justice Samuel A. Alito declared: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
Not “wrongly” decided. But “egregiously wrongly” decided.
Thus resides extremism in the robe of a jurist on the US Supreme Court. And Alito is not the only one: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, and Roberts cockroach there, too.
How long will it be before these “judges” focus their “analysis” on Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution?
What will the words, ”Each State … in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct …” mean to our cockroach US Supreme Court?
I will tell you. They mean whatever Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, and Roberts say they mean.
Look for state legislatures (read: Republican legislatures) to determine that the popular vote for President is merely “advisoral”, but not “binding” on the “state legislature”.
Various Republican state legislatures will undoubtedly pass laws that its state’s popular vote is allotted only ½ of its electoral votes. Or ¼ of its electoral votes. Or none of its electoral votes. Because the state legislature “knows best”, haven’t you heard?
No such laws have been passed yet, to my knowledge, but they are coming.
Furthermore, such law do not run contrary to Article 2, Section 1 or to the 12th Amendment.
As demonstrated in Dobbs, this US Supreme Court does not believe in freedom. And I say this Supreme Court does not believe in democracy either.
“One Man, One Vote”? How quaint!
The very existence of the Electoral College means that the election of the US President has never been predicated in democracy. Tell it to Hillary Clinton. Or Al Gore.
The Senate filibuster means that federal legislation has not been predicated on democracy since — what? — 1837? We have rule by the minority.
Thus, America, in 2022, is fundamentally not democratic. I predict the US Supreme Court is fixing to prove it in a “case” someday soon. Dobbs is just the beginning.
Beware and be wary.