For colin powell. They were each fined 1000. The justices have through june to issue a ruling in the case. T 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 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
Contrast, rather than as proxy voters, it is free to do so. In short, states determine how to select a electors and ensure they meet the relevant requirements and perform their duties as assigned. This means that states can oversee bribery as an incident, as a power to appoint. Tos must include the power remove and elector without a criminal trial. Under my friends position, as a practicality, ride electors would cast ballots and even legal votes. The state prevented him from casting a legal ballot. As this court explains in ray, the purpose and history of the 12th amendment reflected the reality that electors acted as pledge agents and the history of such pledges should be given great weight. Point,ustice ginsburgs and it is worth noting that people rely on such pledges taken voluntarily. Be of requirements would little value if not enforced. In almost 70 years since ray, states have continued to an act loss. Congress has consistently deferred to the Plenary Authority and no court oth
Lets get this show started. My name is ryan heath and i am the Senior Editor at lit ago in washington, d. C. Politico in washington, d. C. I think you should be able to hear me now . Any better now . Ok, lets do it. Hows that now . Better . Good. Good. We are going to do it. Feedback,for the thats the sort of participation we want over the next 80 minutes, you might be able to tell from my accent im not from around here. We are looking at how we can solve problems and fix americas political system, apparently it is still broken and they need an australian here. But we have just meant to tell us how to fix us its governor steve bullock. And we have a panel of distinguished guests and we will go into the details of working in pieinthesky ideas of how we are going to fix american politics. As an outsider, before we get started, feel free to try some innovations like not talking about impeachment for 20 minutes. We are going to talk about some real ideas over the course of the next 80 minu
Both michael and robert are in the courtroom today. Polly wishes she could be, too. What this Court Previously deemed unlikely in light of the text of the 12 amendment, which is that illegal removal of an elector after a vote begins, is exactly what happened here only three days after this court issued its prior opinion. This court has the opportunity at long last to hold that the saysitution means what it and says what it means. Constitutional electors perform a federal function, a constitutional function. When they cast their vote for president and Vice President and that is not subject to control or interference by the state. They are controlled, how they are selected . Isnt that opportunity given to the states . Mr. Harrow the opportunity to appoint electors is, but that is where it ends. If they appoint them, why cant they impose conditions on the appointment . Mr. Harrow they can. One of those could be that you have to follow. Mr. Harrow what they cant do is come after that votin
yesterdaa at 2:00. then late last night, the douglas county sheriff s department put out the alert that the three, the mother and the two children haven t been seen since. jennifer 36 years old. she s 5 6 they were driving a 2011 country. license plate is if you see jennifer or adam, call the sheriff s department. we re trying to get more inforration and we ll bring it later. in castle rock in douglas county sheriff, i m jason gruenauer. breaking news in tennessee, a wild fire killed three people. hundreds of home and businesses have been destroyed. the flames are still threatening that area may see rain today which could help in the fire fight. there s more severe weather hitting the same part of the country. tornado slammed northern alabama last night killing three people, four children are in critical condition after a 24-hour daycare was hit. we re seeing images ever homes and buildings destroyed by this. the national weather service confirmed three fatalities aft