it s interesting, this brings the electoral college closer to its original design. if you read what the founders said, what alexander hamilton said, the idea was it to elect a college of electors who would actually use their own independent judgment to pick who they thought would be the best person in the country to become president. only because of the rise of mass democracy that we had this idea, you would elect electors who bound themselves to vote for one candidate or the other. i agree with bradley, the constitution doesn t allow states to appoint electors and then suddenly control them or even remove them, just the way states couldn t recall senators. once they are federal officials, they can do what they want free of state law. i get the idea. you could theoretically have electors who could exercise their own judgment but that is why i bet states are going to start putting state politicians from each party in the position of electors so they can be counted on to keep their pro
interesting, this brings the electoral college closer to its original design. if you read what the founders said, what alexander hamilton said the idea was to elect a college of electors who would use their own independent judgment to pick who they thought would be the best person in the country to become president so only because of the rise of mass democracy we have this idea that you would elect electors who bound themselves to vote for one candidate or the other. the constitution doesn t allow states to appoint electors and controllable removal recall them just the way states which pick the centers couldn t pick senators. once federal officials they can do what they want free of state law so you could theoretically have electors who could exercise their own judgment but that is why states will start putting state politicians from each party in the position of
to understand why, jacob and i met with student leaders at north carolina a&t state university. they say their political power has been undercut by what s called gerrymandering. so we are walking up on the line, the gerrymandered district. so in a second we will be in another district. faactually, you re already i another district. so if i m over here, i m in district 13. wait a minute. hold on a second. hold on. so katy s in the 6th district. and me and you are chilling in the 13th. 13th. gerrymandering is tactic used by state politicians to draw up congressional districts to help one party win, and it s legal all across america. north carolina is one of the most gerrymandered states in the union. where is the actual dividing line? basically it s, like, where the sidewalk cracks.
a new headquarters in new york due to opposition to the tax breaks he was getting from a number of state politicians. what s your reaction? obviously losing an economic project like that is something i m concerned about. when you have a sweetheart deal in new york of $3 billion because of political connections it beg it is question, why do you need that sweetheart deal, that break? we need republican leadership to lower taxes and regulations. new york businesses, first and foremost thrive and then new businesses come because of the environment we created. this is a sign of policies in albany that are killing the state. congressman reed, good to have you on. good to be with you, jim. enjoy the weekend. coming up, it is bill barr s first full day as attorney general of the united states. what does it mean for the future of the mueller probe? stay with us.
jobs and spend the money on firehouses or something. they say it all the time whether it makes sense or not. in this case, the company said they were affected by it, didn t like it, didn t want to argue, go through the process and the inevitable lawsuits they would have had to. somebody should have prepared them for what they were coming into. they decided to walk away. watch a yankees or a mets game and you will know new york city isn t all rainbows and unicorns getting things done but there is a rift in the democratic party. let me read you the statement on this from cuomo. a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above the community. he s talking about some local and city politicians and state politicians i don t think people around the country know but also the person on the screen behind us, alexandria ocasio-cortez, the new member of congress.