A Democrat already introduced bills to dismantle the electoral college, a move that would upset the careful balance established by the Founders. The Daily Wire reports:
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced two bills on Thursday, one to eliminate the electoral college and the other to prohibit presidents from pardoning themselves or their family members.
A press release from Cohen’s office stated that the “senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced two Constitutional Amendments today on the opening day of the new Congress. The first would eliminate the Electoral College and provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. The second would limit the presidential pardon power by prohibiting presidents from pardoning themselves, members of their families, members of their administrations and their campaign staff.”
“In two presidential elections since 2000, including the most recent one in which Hillary Clinton won 2.8 million more votes than her opponent, the winner of the popular vote did not win the election because of the distorting effect of the outdated Electoral College,” Cohen said. “Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. More than a century ago, we amended our Constitution to provide for the direct election of U.S. Senators. It is past time to directly elect our President and Vice President.”
“Presidents should not pardon themselves, their families, their administration or campaign staff,” Cohen continued. “This constitutional amendment would expressly prohibit this and any future president, from abusing the pardon power.”
These two bills would be ruled unconstitutional as they infringe on the President’s core powers of Article II. Democrats will not try to pass these as constitutional amendments, where these reforms could actually come in effect (although undesirable), because they know that the American people and the states would be against it.
Apparently we have legislators that don’t know the first thing about our Constitution and how it works. They would have to pass and amendment and it would have to be ratified by the States to become effective.
TERM LIMITS ! Drain the swamp. Dissolve the central government and return states rights to the states. Urge California to build a wall around California and leave the union, it’s a one party state already.
I agree totally. It’s time for term limits so arrogant buffoons like Cohen can take a rest.
Victoria…You took the words out of my mouth….AMEN!!!
Can he possibly believe the small states would vote for this? Hell, with no electoral college they become electorally irrelevant, and they must know this.
A bill does nothing. It has to be a Constitutional Amendment that has to be ratified by 2/3 of the STATES, and that ain’t going to happen.
keep your damn hands off the Constitution–
Thank you! These people are such twits!
I’ve heard on the radio that if California returns are taken out of the popular vote, President Trump garners a majority of the popular vote.
Now CA is essentially a one-party state because of the way they have designed their primaries… the top two vote totals in the primary get on the ballot in November. With the skewed population of leftists, this means no-one but a left-leaning candidate can ever get elected.
The Demonicrats are working to effect the same domination in FL & NY. When they succeed the Republic will fast disappear. What can be done? How about wwe support a legal (non combative) method for a state to secede. Then we can encourage CA to get out of the USA & if (sadly maybe when) the leftists manage to take over the government, those of us who want to remain free can secede from the Unreasonable States of America that will come into being.
Keep the electoral college and repeal the 17th amendment.
The electoral college is our only protection against MOB RULE! If they change it , our country is history!
Once these idiot measures land in the courts send the legal bills to Cohen and company – NOT the Justice Department ie the taxpayers.
What he should have said is “Ignorant Americans who have never read the Constitution or taken and understood a civics course expect the winner of the popular vote to win office. More than a century ago, we amended our Constitution to provide for the direct election of U.S. Senators and that was a serious mistake which removed a significant check against an imperial national government be removing the states as a counterbalance.
Of course, the man, himself, is too ignorant to recognize either fact,
And sadly it was the Republican party that led that change.
What flag does Cohen pledge allegiance to? It certainly isn’t the Flag of the USA! Who VOTES for un-American people like him? He & his constituents need to be given lessons on the founding of our Republic! We are a REPUBLIC, NOT a DEMOCRACY you blithering idiots. There IS a difference!!!
Eliminate the Electoral College and California, New York and Florida will tell us who the president will be. Why aren’t people wising up to Democrats? They’re more focused on getting rid of Trump and things like this than what is good for the Republic. One has to wonder what they have to hide. Is it because if he does a good job people will begin to notice and wonder why they’ve only been working for themselves? Because he’s not a politician and can’t be bought? Because people might elect other business people instead of them and they’ll lose their cushy jobs? They’ve been focused on President Trump for two years instead of doing their jobs. Why? They didn’t do any of this when Obama was in office. He could have introduced slavery again and they would have said it was good for the economy.
I totally agree.
Florida is mostly a republican State. It’s the muslims and illegal aliens that Obozo purposely shipped here to change things up. If I’m not mistaking also, the second term that Obozo declared himself the winner of, Florida’s Election results weren’t in. Get rid of Commifornia, Washington, New York, Connecticut and Illinois and the rest of the country would have a better day so. They also need to get rid of dual residents that have homes up in northern states if they even live in the country and have homes in the south for their vacation homes as well as showing proof of citizenship/residency/legal drivers license with proof of citizenship to vote. Do away with all these damned democrats that are over the polling stations that are willing to rig the elections to put democrats in positions that democrats actually lost during the ending of the count period. Our representatives lost quite a few seats thanks to Palm Beach and Broward counties .
Well, when you look at the BIG picture, ALL they WANT is to ENSLAVE us ALL, not just the way it was with black people…..ALL of US are supposed to BECOME their SLAVES…..With OPEN borders you let MILLIONS upon MILLION of POOR people IN who will over time DRAIN ALL of our RESOURCES…….BUT in some STRANGE way will make THEM, so-called politicians, RICHER and RICHER, as well as the ones who already are RICH or SUPER-FILTHY RICH, and THAT will INCLUDE “THEIR” so-called JUDGES…….!!!!!!!
Morons like Cohen need to be eliminated, NOT the Electoral College.
I agree. What is his address ? So that anyone who wants to do that can go there.
Amen from fellow Mass-sufferer in North Brookfield. Each election day I feel like mouse poop in a landfill of excremental demosocialists. Even my home state of PA has been smothered by the landfill.
I feel WITH you as Michigan is the SAME kind of LANDFILL……
Well here we go the first of the communist democrat Jews are not content with a constitutional republic no, no their goal is what Marx, Linen, Mow, Castro’s , Chavez wanted and got the universal communist utopia so now we’re gonna try it he, this time it’ll work because these are Americans communist Jews, Schumer, Barbra and if you check the biggest mouths do a wiki search you’ll be surprised. Then on the propaganda front we have the fake media, do a wiki on the owners and pundents they are the stripe of communism so are we done a republic, if we let them, I know there is a high number in charge of things and they don’t care anymore, Obama has them unafraid of us the citizens.
We already DID ‘enjoy” that UNIVERSAL COMMUNIST, mixed in with “muslims”, UTOPIA for 8 (EIGHT) miserable years…..FORGOT obozo ALREADY….????? NOT me……
Eliminating the electoral college would essentially give a small number of highly populated states and cities power over the entire country. That is why the framers of the constitution were smart. They foresaw the potential disaster that could perpetuate one party rule ad finitum.
They try we WILL BE IN A STATE OF WAR, our founders knew a time would come when someone would try to destroy the republic, thus the 1 & 2 amendments first to warn those doing the destroying and warn others of what’s happening the second for enforcing and following through on the 1st. Freedom is won by blood and freedom is kept by blood. We have these communist have established the conditions of political correctness to shut people like me down, I will not giveup my freedoms because someone can’t Handel the truth. I was told when very youn by the wisest man I ever knew and loved deeply my old grandad, he said “A. Friend will tell you what you need to hear, not what you wanna hear” a very wise old man born 1899 the turn on the 20th century passed 1980.
BUT THAT is their GOAL, their ONLY goal…. been for the LONGEST of TIME now….BUT they “think” THEIR time has come NOW, with the HELP of obozo pulling the strings from BEHIND the curtain, along with soros and the rest of the “bilderberg CARTEL”…..Many people though STILL DON’T get THAT…..!!!!!
Left does not want a republic, they do not want any chance at the American Dream, they want sufferring, more sufferring, they are clueless with any ideas on how to fix anything, they feel your pain and they actually want more people to feel pain. They are the party of destrucion, criminality, they do not want any rich people which means they do not want progress, they want open borders because that is where there voters come from and 99% of them are on government programs within a month or two. They hurt our poor and middle class and they love allowing criminals, terrorists, rapists and other criminals into the country because the majority or OK, so if a few Americans get killed by illegals it is OK, also if a lot get raped by them, thats OK. I hope the people wake up before the 2020 election and show the party of destruction your not wanted here, go to Cuba that is where you belong.
You just DESCRIBED “Europe” BEAUTIFULLY……
It is amazing that the Democrat Base is too stupid to realize their party is destroying every protection the Constitution provides them from the excesses of government. But then, PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST/DEMOCRATS run the schools!
Once again the dumbocrats have stuck their head up their rear end and are trying to destroy the republic. Why is it that they think their ideas are bullet proof and absolutetly correct,.
POWER…ABSOLUTE POWER…..AND MONEY…..They are endlessly GREEDY…..just ask hillary……..
The left wants to destroy our republic. We must defend this country using the Constitution.
He’s going to amend the Constitution, YEA RIGHT! Blowhard showboating DemoCrap.
BS Clinton did not have 2.8m more votes if you take away the illegals.
I believe THAT number is actually MUCH HIGHER and THAT fact actually LOWERS her so-called “win” of the popular vote tremendously……..
Leave it to the Left, anything they touch is corruption, we had 8 years of an inane fraud, who worked under corruption, while he lives and breathes.
AND STILL “talks” TRASH…….Needs/TAKES a BULLET to MAKE that THING go AWAY…..
It is evident that “we the people” identify and record ALL of the supporters of these actions and deal with them in a prescribed manner …
Without the electoral college the president would be elected by the large population states thereby freezing out states with low population from national elections, this danger was forseen by the founders and is the reason the electoral college exists. I doubt have a president elected mostly by big cities or socialist states would sit well with flyover states.
George Bailey, you have nailed the reason that our Forefathers, in their wisdom, established the Electoral College and why it remains a necessary part of our elections. California is an example of how the big cities make the decisions and the votes of the more conservative rural areas have no say in what happens here. Without the Electoral College, the states in the midwest would have no say in the elections along with many other states as New York and CA would make the decisions for everyone. I am grateful for many things that our Forefathers included in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and for their brilliant insight into the future that they deemed necessary to protect us from. Without that insight, we would no longer be a free country. People need to be educated so that they understand how important it is that we not amend the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights and as to why our system works.
You are so right…BUT we can NO longer “educate” our kids or have THEM “educated” as it should be in the SCHOOLS because of the “lefts'” take OVER of our SCHOOLS…..AND, unfortunately, MANY, MANY of our kids aren’t being EDUCATED about this at HOME because there are TOO MANY UN-educated so-called “parents” nowadays who also either DON’T really CARE about such MATTERS or are LIVING HAPPILY off of TAX PAYERS’ money……..!!!!!! These so-called democRATS are COUNTING on these UN-UNDER-educated parents, BIG time……!!!!!! That’s why they also DON’T want “GOOD SCHOOLS” in black NEIGHBORHOODS….to KEEP the all DOWN…..AND OUT of WORK…..
The Electoral College affirms a great understanding in American political thought: the majority is not always right. In terms of elections, the Electoral College balances the demands of large populations concentrated in one geographical area (modernly, the big cities) with those of a more dispersed populations in rural locations (once most of America). Among other things, the Electoral College is a recognition of the importance of populations with diverse interests and smaller numbers than folks in big cities (including and especially now, Sanctuary Cities).
Absolutely! What they don’t tell you is that a populous liberal state like the Peoples Republic of California would cancel out several other less populous states, and that would make their votes meaningless. The votes in several large liberal cities would determine the election.
How would either bill be ruled unconstitutional? The SCOUTS doesn’t have the authority under the Constitution to rule CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS unconstitutional – period.
Granted, such amendment would further the Progressive agenda of unraveling the Republic in favor of a democracy, the latter which the Founders and Framers feared and hated. It should be noted that the 17th Amendment which took away representation of the States in the federal government was a Progressive move.
RECCE1 THE STATES HAVE TO APPROVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN THE BOZO DUMBO,S ARE STUPID ON THERE NEW POWER..WHICH THE PRES IS NOT GOING TO SIGN ANYTHING COMING FTOM DUMBO CRATS