Idaho requires independent presidential candidate petitions to include a vice presidential candidate as well. However, Idaho permits a stand-in for vice-president. In February, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a constitutional challenge to the requirement that the petition list anyone for vice president. Team Kennedy v McGrane, 1:24cv-83.
On September 4, U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill refused to dismiss the case. The state had argued that because it permits stand-ins for vice president, its requirement does no harm. But the judge said that Kennedy had presented evidence and reasoning that suggests the requirement does impair independent presidential candidates, and that the equal protection claim is plausible. Therefore, the case will continue. Here is the ruling keeping the case alive.
Meanwhile, Trump will finish his interrupted rally in Butler PA tomorrow and Elon Musk plans to be there.
I’ma bee thur!
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/justices-take-up-false-statement-dispute-and-rare-capital-case/
SCOTUS NEWS
Justices take up “false statement” dispute and rare capital case
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15 CERT GRANTED CASES– NONE ELECTION RELATED
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/09/28/harris-irs-union-endorsement-tax-increase/75415537007/
IRS GANG ENDORSES HARRIS — ZERO SURPRISE
HARRIS TAX RATE – AT LEAST 100 PCT ???
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ONE MORE REASON TO ABOLISH THE BYZANTINE EC WITH ALL OF ITS MACHINATIONS
HOW MANY EC MACHINATIONS IN 2024 – 100 ??? 500 ??? 1,000 ??? MORE ???
Harris tax rate; infinity. They’ll achieve zero carbon through global thermonuclear world war.
State identification, even in Idaho, whether for the ego, id, superego, or any fraudian slip, is no reason to abolish the electoral college, unless it’s because we at long last abolish the union between uS States.
The actual record of the Electoral College is quite good. There has been only one election in which a candidate for President had a clear majority of the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote (Tilden in 1876). Tilden actually had the electoral vote as well on election night, but had electors taken away from him by selective disqualification.
Every other case in which a candidate lost the electoral vote in spite of having more popular votes was the case of a candidate with less than 50% of the popular vote. If we get rid of the Electoral College, there would have to be some sort of run-off.
But, we DON’T need to do that. In fact, it is unlikely that we will any time soon. If states had some sort of provision for run-off voting in those cases when no candidate gets a majority of the popular vote in a state, that would resolve the election much better.
It would be better to dissolve the union.