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Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup

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The Limits of the Barkelman Nightmare Theory

Wayletme: If a state defines the time and manner and place of the election, it's up to us. We'e we're going to send electors for the candidate of our choice. That's clearly constitutional, but so anti democratic that no state legislature would have the the gumption to admit that they were doing that. But there's a much more serious constitutional question about whether they get to then not honor the results of that and simply appoint electors of their own. Is that fair? Yes, it's not only controversial, it's it's unlikely to be lawful. Because one senaria is that they say, just exclude the state. Right? All you six million pennsylvania

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