Open Letter from Oliver Hall to Laurence Tribe re: Cornel West for President

Posted on by July 18, 2023

This letter from Oliver Hall, the Founder, Executive Director & General Counsel of the Center for Competitive Democracy, to Harvard Law University Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe, as published in the July/August 2023 edition of Capitol Hill Citizen:

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Open Letter from Oliver Hall to Laurence Tribe re: Cornel West for President — 36 Comments

  2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-hes-advised-hes-133824055.html

    Trump is notified he’s a target of the US criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election

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    HOW MANY NEW PURGE LISTS DOES T THE TYRANT HAVE PER SECOND OR PER DOJ TARGET LETTER ???

    WHAT MORON(S) IN THE USA REGIME THOUGHT IT IS SWELL TO SEND TARGET LETTERS TO POSSIBLE SUPER-TRAITORS / FELONS —–

    SO THEY CAN DESTROY EVIDENCE, SUBVERT WITNESSES. — SUBVERT ENTIRE CRIMINAL PROCESS ???

  4. Bad things happen when you rely on biased fake news sources to draw even more nonsensical inferences, the standard AZ MO as evidenced here.

  5. AZ posting fake news yet again. What do you expect from someone on the Biden payroll

  11. Can you tell your readers where that article came from and what the publication’s history and bias are?

    There seems to be an unfortunate (at least to my mind) trend in Ballot Access News. Perhaps I am wrong, but it used to be strictly “news” presented in a somewhat journalistic, neutral style: this court case happened, this bill passed, etc., with occasional commentary. Lately the posts seem to be more advocacy and opinion. Not that advocacy and opinion was always missing, but it seems that opinion and advocacy are becoming more predominant. A Google News Search, say, of “No Labels Party” for the past week (any week) will show a variety of articles from newspapers, interviews (say, on WNYC/NPR’s The New Yorker Radio Hour), podcasts and news websites, but Ballot Access News seems to cherry-pick articles devoid of any critical commentary or even factual data about a non-major party — or, as in the case of Richard Winger’s post on the critical Mother Jones piece, preemptively dismissing it.

    I understand that cable news, podcasts, magazines and newspapers today are much more partisan and their stories are more likely to have a point of view — and there is definitely reason to challenge the kind of mainstream journalistic values that alter kockers like myself grew up with, and perhaps you want Ballot Access News to go in that direction.

    It is your website and you can certainly do what you will with it. I am probably part of a small minority who would prefer straight news or presentation of opinion without the editors either attacking or praising the point of view presented in opinion pieces. But then I guess I will have to go elsewhere for more neutral news.

  12. Iprx has a list of real news sources which I tried to post here at least twice but it didn’t post, probably because fake news censor real news.

  13. BAN has been pushing more communist views lately. It’s because Richard Winger is one.

  14. When it comes to election news, good luck finding any website or media organization without any sort of bias. I’ve always seen Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News as a much needed counterbalance against the sheer pro-two party system bias found in the legacy/Establishment media organizations, and he and now also Bill Redpath often help bring to light important election information or editorials that would otherwise be seen by fewer people. Oliver Hall’s piece certainly qualifies as such.

  16. Winger is a commie. Look how he favors far left “news” sources and commie junk like RCV and Biden.

  18. “Political compass” is fake news and hot garbage. There is no excuse for peddling that junk.

  21. Real news sources also include The American Conservative, Daily Caller, Takimag, Tucker Carlson, Daily Signal, Zero Hedge, VDARE, RT, and many others.

  23. Thanks for posting the fine article by Oliver Hall. He makes excellent points some of which I had not heard or thought of before.

  24. If anything, it’s list of third party “accomplishments” is a list of bad ideas that have hurt the US by becoming law. I doubt those laws would have never passed but for third parties. It’s true minor parties called for them before major parties. However, some people within major parties also called for them, as did pressure groups that weren’t parties. Therefore, the article doesn’t really make as much of a point as it tries to.

    To the extent minor parties did have an impact, it was largely as spoilers – by costing the election to the major party closest to them, they provided incentives no one else could to adopt their positions and win back their voters. Hall undercuts this by putting doubt to whether they really ever work as spoilers. If they don’t, that cuts down on their effectiveness, but if they do, it cuts down on their popularity.

  25. MINORITY RULE PREZS IN USA SINCE DAY 1 —

    1788-1824 — MAINLY CONGRESS OLIGARCHS PICKING CANDIDATES – 12 AMDT ELECTORS VIA GERRYMANDER STATE LEGISLATURES

    1828-1968 — MAINLY PARTY HACK BOSSES PICKING CANDIDATES – ELECTED BY VOTERS IN GERRYMANDER STATES WITH BARE MAJORITY OF TOTAL EC ELECTORS

    SINCE 1968 — MORE PRIMARY VOTERS PICKING CANDIDATES [ESP DEMS IN CONVENTIONS VIA PR PREZ PRIMARIES ] – BUT SAME OLDE GERRYMANDER STATES WITH BARE MAJORITY OF TOTAL EC ELECTORS
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    P-A-T — VOTERS NOMINATE /// VOTERS ELECT — NO JUNK EXTREMIST CAUCUSES, PRIMARIES ANS CONVENTIONS.

  26. az contradicts himself again. Now states are gerrymanders again, whereas just the other day they should have been in charge of all laws according to AZ. But then Az contradicts himself all the time. As you might expect from a bozo who says the only difference between Trump and Hitler is that Hitler went to jail, the US is a monarchy, and the only mistakes he ever makes are typographical.

  29. I can’t tell who hates third parties more, duopolists or anti-electoralists. Every BAN post about third parties, or the reforms needed to make them viable, draws dozens of smears and discourse-destroying nonsense.

    The dedicated trolling of democracy is a sign of how weak ours is.

  30. Belcher is a commie. Read his substack.
    Yes I hate commies. Got a problem?

  32. Envirocraziness. Way worse than major or Minor parties, past or present, foreign or domestic .

  34. Not like. It is their religion. It’s a suicide death cult, and they aim to take 90%+ of humanity with them.

  36. Not interested in AZ fake news links, but congressmen can go plant all the trees they wish. Hopefully at their own personal expense and not that of taxpayers.

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