Washington state, which had 22019 faithless electors this year, levies a $1,000 fine for faithless electors.
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As was the case in Minnesota, most of the laws that punish faithless electors have been passed after a state experienced a faithless vote.
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The attempted faithless electors in Colorado, Minnesota, and Maine were also Sanders supporters from caucus states where Sanders won big, as was the faithless elector in Hawaii.
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Faithless, 'Muhammad Ali' This 2001 dance tune by British dance Faithless references Ali as a figure of perseverance and source of inspiration for the group's MC Maxi Jazz.
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" Under New York's faithless servant doctrine, an employee who is faithless in the performance of his or her service is "not entitled to retain any compensation earned during the period of misconduct.
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How many faithless electors have there been in American history?
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She would need 38 "faithless electors" to win this game.
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Most other faithless votes were cast against vice presidential nominees.
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Those who do defect come to be known as "faithless" electors.
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In past elections, few have acted as so-called "faithless" electors.
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No faithless elector has ever changed the outcome of an election.
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Bucking their jurisdiction's votes could also have consequences for faithless electors.
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Several faithless electors have used their position to pursue quixotic protests.
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First, let's retire the nomenclature of "faithless electors" once and for all.
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Most of these states created these laws after electors cast faithless ballots.
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This would seem to be the case among this year's faithless electors.
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I can't change anything ... I feel that they have made China faithless.
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And there's a history of rogue, faithless, or just plain incompetent electors.
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Another "faithless" elector announced he wouldn't cast his electoral vote on Dec.
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Whether they have the fortitude to cast faithless votes en masse is unlikely.
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For instance, the popular vote compact does not do away with faithless electors.
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This election was the first since 1872 with more than one faithless elector.
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A handful of states try and discourage faithless electors by criminalizing the act.
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He said the "faithless electors" haven't selected an alternative yet, after Ohio Gov.
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Clinton and any third person chosen by the greatest number of faithless electors.
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If presidential electors not respecting a state's popular, pledged vote have been called 'faithless electors' — a term coined decades before this year's contest — perhaps those unwilling to abide by the results of the electoral vote should be called 'faithless citizens.
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For instance, nearly 1 in 5 Republican electors in 2008 considered casting faithless ballots.
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Democrat electors, in particular, could cast faithless votes to draw attention to this issue.
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While defections are rare, nine of the past 17 elections have witnessed faithless votes.
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As a matter of history, the "problem" of faithless electors has been mostly theoretical.
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The seven faithless electors roughly translates to the disenfranchisement of over 6900 million votes.
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Diana was five feet 10 inches tall, the same height as her faithless husband.
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Faithless electors could change the outcome of presidential elections with thinner Electoral College margins.
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I love that it should appeal to people of any faith or even the faithless.
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Seven electors voted contrary to expectations and three more electors attempted to cast faithless votes.
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Whether Congress chooses to take up the issue of faithless electors when they convene Jan.
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A handful of states even criminalize the act of faithless voting through fines or misdemeanors.
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No elector had ever been prosecuted or replaced for a faithless vote — until this year.
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Since the Electoral College was found in 1787, just 157 people have been faithless electors.
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As one of the seven so-called "faithless electors" who, in the words of Prof.
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My research has uncovered a surprisingly large number of electors who consider casting faithless votes.
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In a twist, one faithless elector in West Virginia voted for Dukakis' running mate, Sen.
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Three faithless Republican senators voted against their own interests and the interests of their party.
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Clinton won 232 electoral votes on November 8, but "faithless electors" also brought down her total.
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In 0003, seven so-called "faithless" electors went their own way, breaking with their state results.
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That no Republican electors cast faithless votes in that election is instructive to our current situation.
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Thirty-eight faithless electors from states Trump won switching their votes to Clinton would do it.
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Colorado's secretary of State has referred a "faithless" elector to the state attorney general for investigation.
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However, the seven defectors represent the biggest pool of "faithless" electors in more than 2900 years.
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Many "faithless" electors have cast their ballots for candidates other than those they pledged to support.
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The plucky Karen's extreme patience with Peter's faithless conduct and shilly-shallying ways seems beyond miraculous.
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That year had only one faithless elector, a Democrat protesting Washington, DC's lack of congressional representation.
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The faithless elector, Michael Baca, crossed out Clinton's name on his ballot to write in Kasich.
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At least six electors may become "faithless" — which would be the most significant defection since 1808.
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Electors who have voted against the people's decision or abstained from voting are known as faithless electors.
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In recent elections, for example, "faithless" electors have voted for Libertarian John Hospers in 1972, Texas Sen.
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The most recent instance of a "faithless elector" was in 2004, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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Those who have been calling for electors to be "faithless" have thus ceded too much linguistic ground.
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The commonality among the Democratic faithless electors — both successful and attempted — is that they're Bernie Sanders supporters.
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In many cases, "faithless electors" are forced to pay a fine if they vote against the popular choice.
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The very first Faith to Faithless event was a year ago at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
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This is not an unusual combination for Gaiman, who tends to like everyman protagonists with faithless, abrasive girlfriends.
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According to the Founder's vision, then, an elector has every right to be "faithless" and vote their conscience.
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No faithless electors have ever been punished, so political junkies will be watching to see if that changes.
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Back in 2014, I reviewed Andy McCarthy's interesting book Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment.
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This outcome drives that home, with a number of faithless electors that's a record for the modern era.
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Many of us were angry and terrified but still energized about things like vote audits and faithless electors.
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The Supreme Court is now being asked to decide whether states have the authority to penalize faithless electors.
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Even the term "faithless" is revealing: What faith is an elector who votes his or her conscience breaking?
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Medea became Anna, a biochemist with two children and a faithless husband who takes credit for her research.
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They've agreed to take up big issues concerning the contraceptive coverage mandate and so called "faithless" presidential electors.
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More likely is that Republicans file objections against faithless electors to prevent their protest votes from being counted.
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This translates to about 22016 electors in each of the past few presidential elections who consider casting faithless votes.
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Another, Texan Republican Christopher Suprun, announced he would be a "faithless" elector, and that other Republicans would join him.
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Three "faithless electors" voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell and single votes were cast for Vermont Sen.
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But now the compulsively dishonest, consistently disruptive, perpetually faithless leader of the free world has morphed into something else.
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When that didn't work it was a laughable attempt to overturn the results of the election via faithless electors.
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Republican insiders say there are more "faithless electors" like Mr. Suprun out there, quietly plotting to dump Mr. Trump.
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The ruling dealt with faithless electors, not the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact enacted by Colorado's legislature and governor.
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The charge that electors who vote their conscience are faithless, then, is not well grounded in authoritative legal sources.
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And in at least the past century there was never more than one faithless elector in any given year.
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There have been a handful faithless electors in past cycles, though never enough to change the outcome of the race.
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There was also one faithless elector in each of the following elections: 29, 21, 215, 22016, 22012, 2016, and 225.
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So what happens if the "faithless" scuttle the results and effectively deny both Trump and Clinton a clinching 270 votes?
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It makes her look faithless, shallow, and impulsive when it's supposed to make her look wise, devious, and in control.
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In the end, seven "faithless electors" cast their votes for an alternate candidate — but five of them went against Clinton.
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Washington's law was passed after Mike Padden cast a faithless vote for Ronald Reagan instead of Gerald Ford in 1976.
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In that motion, Mr. Salerno's lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom state: The court cannot sanction Shari's faithless conduct.
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Right-wing groups are stoking anti-Korean sentiment by recycling old tropes of "untrustworthy" and "faithless" Koreans, says Ms Dudden.
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The votes of only 21796 "faithless electors" could have changed the outcomes in five of the previous 19693 presidential elections.
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He tarred the nation's political class, arrayed behind him on the West Front of the Capitol, as faithless and corrupt.
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"There are some laws that bar 'faithless' electors from casting votes for anyone who did not win the popular vote in a state, but I have a hard time believing either the Republican-controlled House or a court (because it raises a political question) would stop the actions of a faithless elector," Hasen writes.
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Faithless Cheryl Strayed: Every pickle I've ever gotten myself into has come about by doing what you did last year at your wife's family reunion, Faithless: by being foggy instead of transparent; by believing "mostly harmless" is the same as harmless; by playing along in order to keep what I assumed was the peace.
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For now, as with faithless electors, the terrible contingency plan isn't a big deal because it's unlikely to come into play.
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Although so-called faithless electors rarely occur, including ninein the last 17 elections, a surprising number of electors consider doing so.
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The electors were challenged but, in the end, only seven proved "faithless" and the majority of them were actually Clinton electors.
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"Suddenly I found myself living through the most banal of stories, as the neglected wife of a faithless husband," she writes.
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Some punish those who don't, while others replace faithless electors with ones who will do the job they pledged to do.
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The final result, however, was 304 for Trump and 227 for Clinton because of faithless electors who cast ballots for others.
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Or SNL's Father Sarducci, arriving at the White House to make sure the faithless know they will pay for their sins.
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The central mystery of the novel is this: What has Helen Franklin done that she must live like a solitary, faithless monk?
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Faithless electors, though, are a rare occurrence in the Electoral College and the overwhelming majority of Republicans are expected to back Trump.
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Larry Lessig has volunteered to defend faithless electors who violate state laws in court and claims that 20 electors are considering defecting.
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Under some state laws, so-called faithless electors who vote against their state's results may be fined or even disqualified and replaced.
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When I wrote Faithless Execution, my 2014 book about impeachment, I well understood that there was no prospect of impeaching President Obama.
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The judge also empowered Colorado's secretary of state to replace any so-called "faithless" electors with people who will follow the law.
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In many states, electors are not legally bound to vote for any candidate, and "faithless electors" have occasionally cast write-in ballots.
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A strange realm, where Bob the Builder, Ant and Dec, and Las Ketchup sit alongside Bjork, Faithless, and DJ Luck and MC Neat.
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In fact, those electors choosing to vote contrary to expectations have come to be known as "faithless electors," hardly a term of endearment.
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Thanks to lawless Southern resistance and faithless Supreme Court interpretations in the decades that followed, even those direct commands were never fully realized.
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In "Eyewall", a wife drinks her faithless late husband's expensive Burgundy; a hurricane that batters her house induces a series of spectral encounters.
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And instead of violent riots, the great upheaval in our democratic order amounted to seven faithless electors (out of 538) changing their votes.
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Any "faithless elector" would also have to grapple with their own state's laws, which sometimes forbid electors from choosing their own presidential picks.
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Her bandmate Malik (John David Washington) proves a faithless boyfriend, and Coco doesn't split from the group, but does distance herself from it.
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I do mind when they rationalize and excuse bad acts out of a completely misguided and faithless sense of cultural and political necessity.
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The site is associated with a particularly political fringe of Catholicism that sees geopolitics as a battleground between the religious and the faithless.
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But why believe this regime will be faithful to the deal at its end when it was faithless to it at its beginning?
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Four of them allow faithless electors to be penalized and another 11 give officials the power to cancel their vote or remove them.
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It's also worth noting that Australians are increasingly faithless: The number of Australians who identify with "no religion" is up to 30 percent.
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Now, I know this sounds insane, the Electoral College being filled with enough faithless electors to overturn the decision of a presidential election.
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Faithless, the legendary trance trio, perform immortal hits like "Insomnia" and "God is a DJ" in front of a frothing audience of thousands.
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"No, the Republican Hail Mary now is GOP faithless electors voting for Pence (or Romney?) instead of Trump in Electoral College vote," Hasen tweeted.
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And in a close race, like the scenario shown on the map above, a couple of "faithless" electors could conceivably swing the entire election.
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While it may not affect the outcome of the election, one faithless vote discounts hundreds of thousands of popular votes cast for a candidate.
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Although rare, the most recent so-called faithless elector cast a blank ballot in 22016, according to an official U.S. House of Representatives site.
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In most of these states, the move to punish faithless electors was made immediately after the occurrence of a rogue elector in that state.
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Over the years, it has had performances from artists such as Faithless, Clean Bandit, Lily Allen, Florence & the Machine, The xx, Gorillaz, and more.
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But she is also shallow, failing to recognize the word "Auschwitz," and, of course, naturally faithless, manifested in her habit of arbitrarily changing taxis.
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Miss Manners is sorry, but the jilted should have only the satisfaction of throwing it in the faithless one's face, not of selling it.
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The petition asked the justices to decide whether "faithless electors" were free to disregard pledges they made to vote for their own parties' candidates.
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The Washington state case arose after three faithless electors voted for former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, instead of Clinton.
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There are at least six "faithless" electors who say they plan to undermine the Electoral College by voting for someone other than their nominee.
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More than 160 "faithless electors" have chosen to go this route since the nation's founding, a tiny fraction of all electoral votes in history.
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Minnesota Electoral College votes were anonymous at the time and no one stepped forward to claim the faithless vote as any kind of political protest.
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Additionally, any faithless votes would be considered as a resignation of the office, the vote would be vacated, and the elector would be immediately replaced.
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It was the presidential election (and democracy's dauntless but fruitless hope for faithless electors) repeating itself, except this time, only kids will suffer the consequences.
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Before this election, the last faithless elector came in 2004, when an elector in Minnesota voted for John Edwards for both president and vice-president.
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But there's another genre that seems to have the same proselytizing agenda that champions Christianity and demonizes all other faiths (including the faithless): horror movies.
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But there have been a few rogue, faithless, or just plain incompetent electors over the years — and their votes have all been counted as cast.
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So does the importance of the issue: It is hardly far-fetched that the next presidential election could turn on the votes of faithless electors.
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In all, there were 10 faithless electors in 2016, including a fourth in Washington, a Democratic elector in Hawaii and two Republican electors in Texas.
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Faithless electors who defect from their expected vote have been scarce throughout American history, and they have never changed the outcome of a presidential election.
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Lessig has offered legal help to faithless electors who come from states with laws that prohibit voting for anyone but the winner of the state.
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Steve Almond: The cover-up is always more damaging than the truth, Faithless, especially when the truth is simply the revelation of who you are.
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People brought up Christian who now professed no faith were 26 times more numerous than those raised in faithless homes who went on to embrace Christianity.
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There have been cases before of electors breaking from their state's popular vote tallies before -- so-called "faithless electors" -- but they have been scattered and unorganized.
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It is far from clear, in other words, that the current Supreme Court will follow Ray, even if Ray should be read to forbid faithless electors.
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But three of the eight who attempted to buck Clinton were replaced by state election officials, raising questions about whether their "faithless" votes will be counted.
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In Colorado, a leader of the anti-Trump Democratic electors, Micheal Baca, was replaced by Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams for his attempted faithless vote.
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Indeed, while there have been occasional faithless electors and several elections decided by some form of "corrupt bargain," the Electoral College has never independently selected a president.
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I've had people spit on the ground and call me a murtadd, while insults to female Faith to Faithless speakers are always framed in disgustingly sexist terms.
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Suprun, who is about to be a "faithless elector," is also urging his fellow electors to make a choice other than Trump, and name-checked Ohio Gov.
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We've forgotten about the potential "faithless elector" from Charleston in 2004, when Republican Mayor Richie Robb, an elector, said he would not vote for his party's nominee.
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Under an unlikely scenario chronicled by the New York Post, electors could become so-called "faithless electors," declining to vote for the candidate to whom they're bound.
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My siblings were not pleased, but I hadn't realized it would be a big deal to sing about being chained up, faithless, and nude on Saturday morning.
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But like the Bible, the Quran today is either often read to inspire belief or rejected as unbelievable, as the testimonies of faithful and faithless Muslims demonstrate.
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While 32 states and the District of Columbia have such laws, a handful enforce them by removing and replacing faithless electors, or in some cases, imposing fines.
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My brain wandered toward unexplained backstory or backward motivation: why is this temple guarded by a faithless dude with a machine gun and a zealot with a staff?
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The next in the series is the philosopher Simon Critchley, whose many books include "Faith of the Faithless" and "Bowie," an excursion through the songs of David Bowie.
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And sometimes the sun is utterly faithless, here today and gone tomorrow — blotted out by the behemoth going up next door, down the block or across the street.
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He said the Russia investigation underlined the need to "drain the swamp," and he celebrated his cheering supporters over what he described as the faithless elites in Washington.
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Both cases involve "faithless electors" from states that supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential elections, but who wanted to cast their electoral vote for another candidate instead.
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Fetch has called Uber a "faithless business partner" in its current court filing and added that its work helped the company acquire more than 35 million new users.
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For all the talk of "faithless electors" trying to deny Trump the White House, in the end, there were more Democrats who opposed their party's nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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The channel booked acts like Paul Oakenfold, David Morales, Faithless, Orbital, the Jungle Brothers and Chicane for an all-night party, which became the hour-long special above.
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Thirty-seven of Trump's pledged 306 electors would have had to vote against him, becoming so-called "faithless electors," to keep him under the 270 threshold to become President.
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Those opponents of President-elect Donald Trump putting their faith in "faithless electors" will probably be disappointed by the end of today, when the final electoral votes are tallied.
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The 'faithless' electors My studies of presidential electors finds that most believe they should have the independence to vote as they wish and a surprisingly large number consider defecting.
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But it is that war which brings Leonatus back to the wife whom he had previously thought faithless, and which brings Britain's proper heirs back to their royal father.
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By being politically accommodating to the administration of a faithless man who enacts damaging policies, the school is sending graduates a message that undermines the intention of this institution.
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But if the Court does side with the faithless electors in Chiafalo and Baca, it could set up a crisis that our Constitution offers no good way to solve.
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This vicious cycle of destitution—the faithful becoming faithless, the poor becoming penniless—illustrates the subjugation of the marginalized and the erasure of those on the fringes of society.
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Justice Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce 'Remain in Mexico' policy Sotomayor recuses herself from case on 'faithless electors' MORE is recusing herself from a Supreme Court case over the issue of "faithless electors" — Electoral College representatives who disregard the will of voters in presidential elections — because of her friendship with one of the parties involved in the lawsuit.
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But the "faithless elector" scenario still runs up against a mishmash of state laws, making it almost impossible for an across-the-board sweep of at least 270 electors defecting.
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But this year, some are calling on their peers to join them as "faithless electors" and reject the candidacy of President-elect Donald Trump, regardless of how their state voted.
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America needs 37 "faithless electors" from states Trump won to do this in order to drop him below the 270 threshold and block him from automatically winning the White House.
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Since Congress had never objected to the practice, the argument ran, Congress must have thought the delays didn't constitute the faithless execution of the law; its acquiescence blessed the practice.
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Calling Electors "faithless" because they in good conscience cannot vote for the Republican Party's nominee in this election is a perversion of the original intent of the Electoral College system.
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Another critique is that so-called faithless electors could go rogue -- not follow the voting pattern of their state -- and, in so doing, swing a close election to another candidate.
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The "faithless electors" as they are known represent a rare break from the tradition of casting an Electoral College ballot as directed by the outcome of that state's popular election.
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A faithless reader — and, notably, the mistress of Emily's brother — Mabel erases Emily's dashes and scrubs out the poet's loving dedications to her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert (Susan Ziegler).
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If the church is to be rescued, it will have to happen in the everyday lives of the faithful, no longer deceived by illusions or false promises of faithless shepherds.
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Already, the eight Democrats promising to vote for an alternative Republican candidate represent more so-called "faithless" electoral votes against a presidential candidate than at any time in American history.
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America's faithless ally in the war on terror received billions in aid while not doing "a damn thing" in return, he snapped, in justification of his decision to cut military aid.
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This is why he decided to become a "faithless elector", as some have called him, by refusing to cast his electoral college vote in accordance with the results in his state.
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Related: Hate in Europe: Germany's Anti-Islamic Protests As you would imagine, many ex-Muslims contact Faith to Faithless for advice or urgent help and have faced abuse in different forms.
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In Cianfrance's latest, that theme gets stretched to the breaking point, turning melancholy into melodrama, and hitting the "sacrificing man, faithless woman" notes hard enough to snap strings and break keys.
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Mark Walker should challenge Tillis on the view that North Carolina deserves a man in Congress who is faithful to bad ideas, rather than one who is faithless to good ones.
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The justices will determine if such so-called faithless electors have the discretion to cast Electoral College votes as they see fit or whether states can impose restrictions including with penalties.
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The first Amber Lounge event, in 21980 in Monaco, had a private performance by Maxi Jazz of Faithless and a V.I.P. guest list that included models, sports stars, musicians and royalty.
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But to claim that electors who vote in faithful accordance with the Constitution and the founders' intent are "faithless" and "disenfranchise" millions of voters is, at best, disingenuous, and at worst, deceptive.
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Chiafalo and Baca now place that question squarely before the justices — and the argument that faithless electors may choose not to vote for the candidate they pledged to support is hardly frivolous.
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Like Israel in its faithless moments, America is untrue to itself when we neglect individual rights and equality among citizens of various origins, faiths and creeds in favor of cohesion and power.
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If you don't like the story of faithless Louis leaving his lover, Prior, who develops AIDS, there's the one about the closeted lawyer (and Trump fixer) Roy Cohn, denying the disease outright.
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CNN reported that this is the first U.S. presidential election since 238 with more than one "faithless elector," or a member of the Electoral College who does not vote for their pledged candidate.
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Some electors occasionally go rogue — a move that renders them a "faithless elector," though many states have laws requiring electors to pledge that they will support the winner of the state's popular vote.
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Soon after, the state passed a law where all votes would be made in public and any faithless vote would immediately be invalidated and the offender would be replaced by an alternate elector.
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Hasen, writing in a longer blog post, explained that it would be a state-by-state decision and that some states bar so-called "faithless electors" from voting against the will of the voters.
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We have witnessed faithless electors in 998 of the last 193 presidential elections -- the most recent being an elector in Minnesota who voted for John Edwards as both president and vice president in 219.
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For years, opponents of the Electoral College have seen any elector being "faithless" as a direct affront to democratic self-government as they are now intended to simply rubberstamp the decisions of the voters.
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But, guided by this test, we can be better assured that "faithless" electors will not be a problem in routine situations but might serve to save us from a constitutional crisis in an emergency.
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Most specifically, it resembles a gender-flipped version of Breaking The Waves, with a husband rather than a wife immolating himself in an outsized act of self-martyrdom to protect a selfish, faithless spouse.
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Thus, it is far from clear that a state may sanction or remove a faithless elector any more than it could remove a Congress member who casts an unpopular vote before their term expires.
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The faithless electors in Chiafalo and Baca may be correct that, purely as a matter of legal formalism, they had the right to cast an electoral vote for whoever they wanted to in 2016.
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The issue of so-called rogue or faithless electors is not new, but the court's decision to take the case comes at a time of renewed debate about the merits of the Electoral College.
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There is nothing in the federal constitution that requires electors to honor that pledge, but many states have enacted laws that would punish so-called "faithless electors" who go against the outcome of the vote.
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A foreign country has never stood accused of hacking an election to help one candidate, and a record number of "faithless electors" voted against the results of the general election in their state this year.
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"It is this type of evil that President Franklin Roosevelt warned us about when he cautioned that voters — not elected officials such as these faithless electors — are 'the ultimate rulers of our democracy,' " he added.
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If faithless Republican and Democratic electors could agree on a more moderate Republican to put forward for the House vote (maybe even Mitt Romney?), he or she might stand a chance of defeating Mr. Trump.
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Scenario 2: 'Faithless Electors' go rogue and swing the election to Clinton If everyone votes as intended, then Clinton will receive 232 electoral votes -- 38 shy of the 270 majority she needed to be elected President.
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From faithless electors, the emoluments clause, Russian collusion, the 25th Amendment and obstruction of justice to the Ukraine impeachment scam, the left has deployed one cockamamie scheme after another to dislodge Mr. Trump from the presidency.
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Twenty-one states, including Texas, do not require members of the electoral college to vote for their party's chosen candidates; the other 29 (plus the District of Columbia) penalise faithless electors with, for instance, a fine.
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In his book Presidential Electors and the Electoral College: An Examination of Lobbying, Wavering Electors, and Campaigns for Faithless Votes, Alexander surveys presidential electors and finds that more than one in 10 considered changing their vote.
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With at least six electors already vowing to become "faithless," the defection could be the most significant since 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors refused to vote for James Madison, choosing vice presidential candidate George Clinton instead.
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Lessig has been offering free legal counsel to "faithless electors" who are considering casting a ballot for an alternative candidate as opposed to Trump, who earned 306 electoral votes on Election Day, well above the necessary 270.
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Nevertheless, exercising the removal power under the right conditions could plausibly give rise to impeachment, just as a suspension of the immigration laws, if a faithless execution of the law, could plausibly give rise to impeachment, too.
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The broader reason we've only had nine faithless electors in the past 80 years or so, despite the enormous power they seem to have, is that it's widely believed that picking the president isn't their job anymore.
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You'd think it would be doubtful that anyone would defend faithless electors, but 257 is revealing that if you haven't fixed the other parts of an unfair system, people will want to use it to address that unfairness.
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That was an unusually high number of faithless electors and could have changed the outcome in five of the 58 prior U.S. presidential elections, according to legal papers in one of the appeals filed at the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a pair of cases on the issue of "faithless electors," members of the Electoral College who choose not to support the presidential candidate picked by the voters in their state.
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With a total of at least seven faithless votes cast — five by Democratic electors and two by Republican electors — the 2016 Electoral College broke a historical record set in 1808, when six Democratic-Republican electors rejected James Madison.
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Either you embrace the rules as they are written in the Constitution, in which case you must accept that electors are technically independent — or you impose some extraconstitutional norms of democracy, in which case why stop at faithless electors?
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This resonated strongly with me so I joined forces with Aliyah Saleem, a feminist ex-Muslim activist, and we started what grew to become "Faith to Faithless," an organization that creates online and offline platforms to promote apostate voices.
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De Niro's company is seeking no less than $3 million for her "disloyalty and violation of the faithless servant doctrine" and no less than $3 million in damages for the "funds and property misappropriated by Defendant during her employment."
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Though there is nothing in the Constitution or federal law that prevents "faithless electors" from voting for a candidate who did not receive a plurality of the popular vote in their state, 29 states do have laws to discourage potential rogues.
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And because the world of adventure and excitement must be seductive, the woman who represents domesticity must be vaguely off-putting: She's faithless to the hero, or doesn't care much for him, or is simply not a very nice person.
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"These last minute efforts are unlikely to affect the winner of the electoral college because there are not enough of these so called faithless electors to make a difference," said Joshua A. Douglas of the University of Kentucky College of Law.
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"We've got 11 more months of watching damage to this country from a lawless and faithless president, who is eager to travel to Cuba but unwilling even to show up at the funeral of Justice Scalia," Cruz said in South Carolina.
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The movie is rife with this kind of shorthand, sketching characters' flaws and attributes in broad sitcom strokes: Sasha's faithless and short-lived fiancé, a restaurateur who practices capoeira, gives Daniel Dae Kim little to play but an empty suit.
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Only Justice Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce 'Remain in Mexico' policy Sotomayor recuses herself from case on 'faithless electors' MORE said she would have denied the permission.
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Like other countries, Canada has had to come to terms with a world in which the US is an unreliable ally on the environment, a skeptic of the United Nations and NATO, an aggrieved trading partner and a faithless friend.
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So the way this would work with, say, Mueller, is that Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could go to a court and get an injunction to prevent their firing by the president based on this argument about faithless execution.
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Pope Francis is not going to swoop in to save the Catholic Church...If the church is to be rescued, it will have to happen in the everyday lives of the faithful, no longer deceived by illusions or false promises of faithless shepherds.
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In its current form, Trump's shift in policy encourages Turkey to expel them from their homes further north, and exile them to the hostile and inhospitable deserts of Syria's wild east at the mercy of a chaotic and seemingly faithless American ally.
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We are many things here in the Verge's corner of the realm (we had a legitimate debate today about whether or not a last-minute rape penalty should be added to the scoring guide, tabled for now,) but we are not faithless.
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The largest U.S. bookstore chain said Demos Parneros breached his duties of loyalty and good faith and acted as a "faithless servant" by sexually harassing the female employee, bullying subordinates, and attempting to "sabotage" a potential acquisition of the New York-based company.
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We grasp their humanity because their moral inconsistencies make them more like the people we meet (and the people we are); depending on the day or point of comparison they — like us — can be friendly or indifferent, generous or spiteful, loyal or faithless.
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However, Trump won 304 electoral college votes, not 306 — the 306 number is a reference to the number of pledged electors the president won, but two of those electors became "faithless electors" and did not vote for the candidate that won their states.
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A Democratic elector in Minnesota has become the first "faithless elector" of Monday's nationwide Electoral College vote after refusing to vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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In theory, a Supreme Court ruling allowing so-called "faithless electors" would add a new level of uncertainty to the race, with no guarantee the winner of the popular vote in a state would get the state's full number of electoral votes.
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That is about as plausible as earlier scenarios where Trump was somehow squeezed out of the nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention, or defeated by the rebel votes of so-called faithless electors, or somehow prevented from taking the oath of office.
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Last May, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the state had the power to impose a $1,000 fine on its four faithless electors, on the ground that the Constitution gives the states total authority to decide how to appoint their electors.
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That was not enough to change the results, but those advocating for the state mandate authority note that in a closer election -- 2000 was decided by five electoral votes -- a handful of rogue or faithless electors could overturn the will of the states.
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He told the story of losing his faith and then finding it, but the Christian-turned-Manichean-turned-Christian-again is a patron saint for memoirists of all kinds: the faithful and the faithless, the somes and the nones, the forevers and the never-evers.
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"We are glad the Supreme Court has recognized the paramount importance of clearly determining the rules of the road for presidential electors for the upcoming election and all future elections," said Lawrence Lessig, a lawyer for the faithless electors sanctioned in Washington and Colorado.
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Advocates for the court's intervention say the issue needs urgent resolution in an era of intense political polarization and the prospect of a razor-thin margin in a presidential election, although so-called faithless electors have been a footnote so far in American history.
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Those electors instead backed Colin PowellColin Luther PowellSupreme Court agrees to hear 'faithless elector' cases The Memo: Trump era flips script on views of intelligence agencies #FSProud: How Mike Pompeo lost the trust of the Foreign Service MORE, the former Republican secretary of State.
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They Should Choose Clinton (Lawrence Lessig in The Washington Post)• Meet the 'Hamilton Electors' Hoping for an Electoral College Revolt (The Atlantic)• Teen Becomes Seventh 'Faithless Elector' to Protest Trump as President-Elect (The Guardian)• Texas Elector Who Criticized Trump Says He's Resigning (Politico) 20163.
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Washington (CNN)Supreme Court justices are meeting behind closed doors on Friday to discuss several cases on high-profile issues including religious freedom and a same-sex wedding flower arrangement, assault weapons limits, access to contraceptives, and so-called "faithless electors" in presidential elections.
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MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL: Faithless electors flirt with anarchy How President Obama can retaliate against Russia If Russian claws dug into US politics, Obama — not Trump — let it happen If the White House and Senate reports are inconclusive, the College should install Trump.
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Arizona surprises everyone with a piece of exposition about how Kepner and Taylor have been dating and fell in love again and, frankly, it feels like a cheat that we didn't get to see her happy especially after such a long, difficult, faithless season for her character.
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In Florida, a faithless elector would be charged with a misdemeanor, prohibited from casting an Electoral College vote and replaced, presumably with an alternate more faithful to the popular-vote results in the state, said Franita Tolson, a voting rights law professor at Florida State University.
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He ran well on the American Independent Party ticket in 1968, capturing 13.5 percent of the popular vote and the 45 electoral votes of five southern states — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi — plus a "faithless elector" in North Carolina, a state won by Richard M. Nixon.
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There has been much discussion about faithless electors abandoning their traditional role, Hamilton Electors and what happened in the past when electors have been thrown out during ballot counting by the House and Senate, such as in 22019, when Louisiana and Arkansas' electors were thrown out.
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If they can't find it, they should at least be wary of assuming that cultlike devotion to the president will allow them to weather the coming storm, or that, in the end, they will be rewarded for a faithless calculation to regard their constituents with contempt.
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Christopher Suprun, a Republican elector from Texas, announced in The New York Times on Monday that he would not cast his vote for Mr. Trump when the Electoral College convenes — and a group of academics and lawyers are trying to coax more "faithless" electors to follow suit.
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And this is no dog-in-the-manger third-party strategy to sandbag one candidate so the other less-offensive one wins, what ring fans would call "throwing the fight" to Hillary in hopes of regrouping the old losing team again in 2020 in a faithless reconstruction.
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He insisted that there was no evidence that any outside power had interfered with the process of casting and counting votes, and he refused to get at all embroiled in the question of whether individual members of the Electoral College should cast "faithless" votes against Trump on Monday.
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"We've got 11 more months of watching damage to this country from a lawless and faithless president, who is eager to travel to Cuba but unwilling even to show up at the funeral of Justice Scalia," Cruz said in South Carolina, where he's campaigning ahead of Saturday's Republican primary.
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Justice Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce 'Remain in Mexico' policy Sotomayor recuses herself from case on 'faithless electors' MORE was the only justice to publicly dissent from the decision to allow the policy to continue.
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But where we are now, with the story grounded in a fight between Cy and Olivia, set within a presidential campaign that echoes many of the past year's real-life political dramas (faithless electors, intelligence investigations into candidates), could give us one of the best Scandal seasons yet.
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Yet in most, the penalty for being a faithless elector is only a fine, and it's unclear whether stiffer penalties would hold up in court — the matter has never been truly tested, and the Constitution's language may indeed give the electors the right to make the final call.
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The record number of defections for the modern era — there hasn't been more than one faithless elector in any one election in the past century — proves that the Electoral College isn't a system that can be relied on to accurately reflect the will of voters in the states.
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And faithless electors are unlikely to affect the outcome even if the Electoral College tally is very close, as it was in 2000, when as few as three Republican electors could have broken their pledges and handed the presidency to the Democratic nominee, Al Gore, who won the most votes nationwide.
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What is more likely is that we are about to witness the most faithless votes cast in an election -- apart from ones involving the death of a candidate -- since 1836, when 23 Virginia electors withheld their votes from vice-presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson because of his relationship with an African-American woman.
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And, for the last six weeks, there have been calls, petitions, and letters to electors who vote in the Electoral College to become "faithless electors" and install someone who is not Donald Trump (in most cases, Hillary Clinton, who is leading in the popular vote by nearly three million votes) into the presidency.
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Mr. Trump is comfortable with the wiseguys-argot of that time and place, and he defaults to it whether he is describing his faithless lawyer or his fruitless efforts to discourage the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, from investigating one of his senior advisers, Michael T. Flynn, over his connections to Russia.
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Despite her undeniable talent, Del Río's opportunities were limited by cinema's Spicy Latina and Latin Lover tropes, with one New York Times reviewer even praising "the alluring Miss Del Río, with her bright eyes, pretty lips and lithe figure" for her "decidedly unrestrained portrait of the faithless creature" in 1927's Loves of Carmen.
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As he becomes ever more bejeweled and famous in the Disney-style landscape of the overworld, his actions become more and more faithless and dishonest, watched over by a guardian angel figure, who finally castrates him, banishing him back into the depths from whence he came, which mirror the surroundings of the church where the film is presented.
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Now, with Laszlo housebound by grief, there are no angry, object-throwing outbursts to contend with, no dredging up of painful memories of drowning brothers and faithless fiancées and suicidal fathers, no slaps to the face when someone like Sara has the temerity to suggest that healing oneself should be any physician's first order of business (or any alienist's).
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In his telling, U.S. leaders of both parties have been played for chumps by faithless allies who won't defend themselves or help us fight terrorism; by trading partners like China and Mexico that have "stolen" our jobs; and, by international institutions that erode our sovereignty and force Americans to fork out money to fight the phantom menace of climate change.
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Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) on Thursday called President Obama "lawless and faithless," blasting his decision to skip the late Justice Anontin Scalia's funeral.
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Despite the likes of Kate Simko and Jeff Mills proving that the concert hall and the club can align, some are a tad suspicious about what happens when orchestras and kick-drums combine —just think of those terrible events when a provincial cellist smashes through a set of Faithless covers and you'll never want to even look at a french horn again.
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The Democratic "illegitimacy" machine roared into full gear: recounts were demanded; Electoral College voters were encouraged to be "faithless" (the lives of faithful ones were threatened); FBI chief Comey's eleventh-hour treachery was denounced; white, blue-collar, Midwestern voters were slandered as hayseeds and "racists"; proposals for the abolishment of the Electoral College were drafted; and insidious Russian hackings were cause to call for a new election.
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It's true that not all horror films serve as mouthpieces for Christianity—there are even a few examples that condemn church leaders—but nearly any horror film that touches on the supernatural will either condemn the faithless ( The Conjuring, The Rite ), frame non-Jesus religions as spooky (The Wicker Man, The Exorcist, Sinister ), or claim that Biblical prophecy is coming to pass (Legion, The Omen).
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Two "faithless electors" from Texas refused to vote for President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday, leaving his official Electoral College vote two shy of what he earned on Election Night.
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" -- January 232018 speech on the USMCA in Warren, Michigan Facts First: Aside from Trump's dubious characterization of his 232014 to 2344 Electoral College margin (232014 to 2328 after defections from "faithless electors") as a "landslide" -- the winning candidate has earned a larger share of electoral votes in 232018 of 232017 presidential elections, the New York Times has noted -- it's not true that people haven't seen such a margin of victory "in a long time.
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The incident comes a week after Trump attacked liberal justices Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce 'Remain in Mexico' policy Sotomayor recuses herself from case on 'faithless electors' MORE and Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgSchumer, Roberts clash inflames partisan rift over Supreme Court Roberts wrestles with abortion law in high-stakes Louisiana case Justices spar over fate of consumer agency MORE and demanded that they recuse themselves from his own cases set to be heard later this month.
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