On July 7, a U.S. District Court heard arguments in Correll v Herring, e.d., Virginia, 3:16cv-467. This newspaper story describes the hearing, although it does not say anything about which way Judge Robert Payne appeared to be leaning. The article says there will be no decision today. The issue is the Virginia law that requires delegates to national conventions to vote for the presidential candidate on the first ballot who had won Virginia’s presidential primary. UPDATE: here is a more detailed news story from the Washington Post.
Based on case law, this case is likely to succeed. The U.S. Supreme Court, ever since 1972, has struck down state laws that tried to influence how national political party conventions are run.
The conventions stuff is part of the EVIL rotted process by which 12th Amdt Prez/VP Electors get chosen.
i.e. totally legal to have total bribes and extortions in picking Prez candidates at the party hack conventions ???
— i.e. primary votes in the States mean ZERO regarding such conventions ???
How about having ENEMY nations take over the party hack conventions and nominate the Prez/VP candidates and adopt the party hack platforms ???
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Abolish the time bomb Electoral College — going off again as in 1860 ???
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Given the way things have been going lately, I’m not entirely confident that a decision will be “based on case law” as Richard describes . . . but I hope I’m wrong.