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@karlbykarlsmith @mbyrnes37 @judgeluttig No, it’s not open. It has never been open. No serious historian or legal scholar believes that it is open. You are simply wrong. Whatever power the Constitution grants to state legislatures is bounded by the terms of state constitutions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @mbyrnes37 @judgeluttig no one is saying that state legislatures can't, before an election, change the manner of how they want to allocate electors. what they are saying is that state legislatures cannot, *after an election*, retroactively decide to allocate electors in a different manner — PolitiTweet.org

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which is to say that basically to make ISL make sense you have to be a conservative legal elite — PolitiTweet.org

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basically to make ISL make sense you have to disregard everything we know about the structure of american government in favor of playing a glorified word game divorced from any kind of context — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith if state legislatures are primarily creatures of state constitutions then the way to read the specific clauses in the Constitution is "legislatures can determine the manner etc. of elections within the constraints imposed by state constitutions and those imposed by congress" — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @mbyrnes37 Yeah, my participation in the world of letters is the multiple columns I've written detailing this exact question, that you can read in a matter of minutes. — PolitiTweet.org

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*precede — PolitiTweet.org

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Setting aside the total absence of a historical record to support the idea that the Constitution is handing plenary power to state legislatures, the fact that ratification was accomplished by *separate conventions* is an indication of what the relationship is. — PolitiTweet.org

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The entire ISL theory rests on the idea that the opposite is true, that on the question of election law, state legislatures are unbounded by state constitutions. But if state legislatures are *creatures* of state constitutions, then that's obvious nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

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The US Constitution does not presuppose that state legislatures proceed the creation of state constitutions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @mbyrnes37 I've written plenty about this, so have many legal scholars, and there are amicus briefs too. Do your own research. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoePostingg much more optimistic than me! — PolitiTweet.org

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we're a republic and not a democracy which means that you have no right to choose your leaders — PolitiTweet.org

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would not be shocked if republicans in states like this begin acting on those proposals for statewide electoral colleges, to make it impossible to ever circumvent the gerrymandered legislatures. — PolitiTweet.org

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yep, wisconsin is the model. there will still be elections and an opposition and the like, it's just that the republican party cannot lose, or if it does, will not have to relinquish power — PolitiTweet.org

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so the answer is yes, rubio supports this nonsense theory (no real surprise, counting on rubio to do or say anything principled is a waste of time) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattBinder: when you read things like this, you really get an understanding of why so many people in crypto lose all their money https… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hill_charlotte: In our new op-ed, @leedrutman and I argue that swing voters have far too much power in our elections—and we can fix thi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Phil_Lewis_: I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how verification is supposed to work. A blue check has been perceived as… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @charlesbethea: Ida from Attapulgus, Georgia, is 105 years old. “I’ve been voting since they let us vote,” she said. https://t.co/5keYmH… — PolitiTweet.org

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trying to use my long dormant personal blog as a way to share research and photos in lieu of twitter. it’s also a place where you can leave comments if you’d like, so there’s that too — PolitiTweet.org

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you know how it is, just casually flipping through discourses on livy on a tuesday morning https://t.co/0w1iXBd7EH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mcopelov: Wisconsin is not a democracy by any meaningful definition of the word https://t.co/7Mb0o0rqoB — PolitiTweet.org

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@GBBranstetter yes. the two things are in tension with each other. people might pay for twitter if it came with a promise with even more content moderation. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoshLipnik: Church of the Annunciation (1930) Clifton Ave. Historic District Cincinnati, OH https://t.co/aPUALulxgG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanlcooper: I remember after Dobbs people were confidently scoffing at me that Republicans wouldn't go after contraception. turns out… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kept_simple also thinking back to when this guy accused me of being one of the people responsible for the rise of white nationalism — PolitiTweet.org

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@kept_simple funniest thing to me is how LF really leans on being an "investigative reporter" when the "investigation" in this case is something you could have found with Google — PolitiTweet.org

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@Adequate_Scott also, it's only daunting to learn a new skill as an adult if you're afraid of admitting failure. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @OsitaNwanevu: Look, I'm not going to rag on people for not knowing how to cook, but the ongoing effort to frame one of the most ordinar… — PolitiTweet.org