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Wins the state popular vote. The case involves three Washington State electors that cast their ballots under ballots for colin powell instead of hillary clinton. This is an hour and 15 minutes. The honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oh yea oh yea oh yea, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States to give their attention with the court is sitting, god save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments first this morning in 19 for 65, the lot below and the others versus the state of washington,. Mr. Chief justice and appease this co ....
Lot below and the others versus the state of washington,. Mr. Chief justice and appease this court, the question in these cases is straightforward to the states have the power to control through law how an elector may vote, they do not, then ordinary expected meaning of the words of the constitution against the backlog of the framers deliberation make it clear that the state has no such power in what is also clear, washington is not like the constitution design, ask this court to read the words elector as agents or maybe better minion and it is clear that the board vote elector is not the constant meaning there vote, the electors vote from article two in washington has effectively give the states of power to cast votes for president in such manner as the legislature. But the actual does not get the states of power to cast both, it gets under gives the states the power to appoint electors. The actual electors of the constitution creates having legal discretion as evie elector does, let ....
Colleagues have come to the floor and spoken here or elsewhere about the importance of providing assistance to state and local governments, and that if that doesnt happen that theyre there are going to be police officers, First Responders and people who have essential jobs that we rely on every single day and for whom were so grateful, that wouldnt be able to get paid. I would just point out that already as part of the Coronavirus Relief measures that congress has passed, there was 150 billion sent to state and local governments, much of which has yet to be spent. And, frankly, much of which we dont know what the actual need is out there until we have a better sense for what the revenue loss is to a lot of our state and local governments. Clearly they are sounding the alarm and are justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what ....
Onearlier this week i spoke the connection between comprehensive Immigration Reform and the crisis we have at our border. Tois the height of hypocrisy talk about trying to do something about Border Security when we cannot even bring comprehensive Immigration Reform to this form floor. Citizenship defined as a status that entails the specific rights, duties, and benefits given to an individual is the final step of ilLegal Immigration process. Since the inception of this country the immigration process has adapted to the evolving situation of the country. Our current immigration system is inherently flawed. 3 of thet poll, 60 public supported congress in taking up Immigration Reform proposals. Whi ....
Given by a country to an individual in the final step of the Legal Immigration process. Since the countrys inception, the Legal Immigration system of the United States has continuously adapted through legislation to the evolving situations of the country. However, our current Legal Immigration system is inherently flawed. In a recent harris poll, 63 of the public supported congress in taking up an Immigration Reform proposal and while the system should be relatively straightforward, problems still tend to arise. Uscis has a history of chronic management problems an delays. The overall backlog of delayed cases exceeded 5. 69 million. What specific aspects of the current immigration system keep it fro ....