Rogue delegates to the Electoral College won’t be able to pencil Joe Biden into the oval office after all, thanks to a grand slam SCOTUS decision. The Supreme Court just dropped a unanimously heavy hammer on one of the plots desperate Democrats were cooking up to defeat President Donald Trump in November.
Rogue delegates squashed by SCOTUS
When Washington, D.C. went back to work Monday morning, they were shell shocked to learn that the Supreme Court won’t let Democrats go rogue and corrupt the Electoral College to suit their evil schemes. The 9-0 decision clearly allows individual states to “punish members of the Electoral College who fail to fulfill a pledge to vote for a state’s popular vote winner in presidential elections.”
That means if Trump was to win a blue state like New York or California, the cheesed off delegates can’t go rogue and write in a vote for Joe Biden. They didn’t spell it out that specifically. They didn’t want notorious RBG, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, to have a stroke or something. So, they used “Frodo Baggins” for an example.
With the election getting closer every day, the political atmosphere is getting increasingly “polarized and volatile.” It’s even worse now than in 2016, when “10 of the 538 presidential electors went rogue, attempting to vote for someone other than their pledged candidate.”
Faithless elector laws
Already, “32 states and the District of Columbia have laws that are meant to discourage” faithless “rogue” electors. Until then, no state “had ever actually punished or removed an elector because of his or her vote.” The question went all the way to the top.
Justice Elena Kagan got to write up the opinion this time. “Today, we consider whether a State may also penalize an elector for breaking his pledge and voting for someone other than the presidential candidate who won his State’s popular vote. We hold that a State may do so.” The hopes of a wave of rogue electors handing the White House to Joe Biden went swirling down the drain.
Frodo Baggins popped up during oral arguments. The hobbit from “Lord of The Rings” is now historically preserved in the Congressional record thanks to Justice Clarence Thomas. “The elector who had promised to vote for the winning candidate could suddenly say, ‘You know, I’m going to vote for Frodo Baggins. I really like Frodo Baggins.’ And you’re saying, under your system, you can’t do anything about that.” Such rogue behavior makes no sense.
This is such a huge deal because “there is a large risk that for the third time in this century, the popular vote winner and the electoral vote winner will be different people.” They expect the big blue states to pick Biden but lose the election to Trump in the heartland. Penalizing rogue electors will prevent them from replacing the will of the voters they represent with a predetermined choice.
