Justice Elena Kagan testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations during a U.S. Supreme Court budget hearing on March 7, 2019. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / ALM
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment. "In my view, the Constitution is silent on states’ authority to bind electors in voting," Thomas wrote.
July 06, 2020 at 10:29 AM
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State laws that fine or remove presidential electors who fail to vote in the electoral college for the candidate whom they pledged to support do not violate the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday.
“Article II and the Twelfth Amendment give states broad power over electors, and give electors themselves no rights,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the unanimous court.
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