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Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup

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State Legislative Exclusion

The constitutional theory here seems to me to have two elements, and the merits of which are not obviously the same. So one is whether, when the constitution says that the electors will be chosen in a manner that the state legislature shall determine,. The second question is, does the legislature even have to have an election at all, or can it simply say, you know, the voters said joe byden, but the voters are dunder heads. Were sending a state of slateof electors for donald trump. And i guess my question is, how much of this strategy is ultimately about these final, sort of exclusive legislative prerogatives? How much is this really all about thoset

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