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Green civil action challenges the legitimacy of US Representatives from southern states

http://gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=412

The civil action (Gordon et al v. Clerk, US House of Representatives, 1:11-cv-00003, filed Jan. 3, 2011), which is now pending before a US District Court, seeks to enforce the US Constitution's malapportionment penalty (14th Amendment, Section 2).

The Amendment mandates reduction of a state's presidential electors and congressional Representatives ("the basis of representation therein shall be reduced") if "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States... is denied... or in any way abridged."

The civil action would enjoin the Clerk of the US House of Representatives from recognizing the full slate of Representatives from "unbounded Southern electoral states." It requests that the court take judicial notice that Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas are "unbound presidential elector states."
Posted by Scott Burger]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:34:37 -0400 Style Weekly
By age, support for a national popular vote was 82% among 18-29 year olds, 75% among 30-45 year olds, 75% among 46-65 year olds, and 68% for those older than 65.

By gender, support for a national popular vote was 82% among women and 65% among men.

By political affiliation, support for a national popular vote was 79% for a national popular vote among liberal Democrats (representing 17% of respondents), 86% among moderate Democrats (representing 21% of respondents), 79% among conservative Democrats (representing 10% of respondents), 76% among liberal Republicans (representing 4% of respondents), 63% among moderate Republicans (representing 14% of respondents), and 54% among conservative Republicans (representing 17% of respondents), and 79% among Others (representing 17% of respondents).

http://nationalpopularvote.com/pages/polls…
Posted by oldgulph]]> Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:46:47 -0400 Style Weekly
Unable to agree on any particular method, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method for selecting presidential electors exclusively to the states by adopting the language contained in section 1 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution — "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."

The constitution does not prohibit any of the methods that were debated and rejected.
Posted by oldgulph]]> Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:45:02 -0400 Style Weekly