{"id":7166,"date":"2016-12-13T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2016-12-13T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T22:37:57","slug":"a-thicket-too-far-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/a-thicket-too-far-ctd-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thicket Too Far, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the new legal strategy against the Electoral College, the reader responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">You need Garland seated to have a 5-4 split of the court, because both postponing the EC vote and Lessig&#8217;s argument go to SCOTUS.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John-Roberts-Chief-Justice-John-Roberts-300x375.jpg?resize=300%2C375\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/>Which presumes <em><strong>SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em> is permanently politically polarized. Is this a viable assumption? Justice Kennedy is the well known swing vote, which no one can predict, but Chief Justice Roberts remains a question mark, a cipher. While he may be one of the godfathers of the dreadful arbitration decisions, he also salvaged the <em><strong>ACA<\/strong><\/em> when Kennedy voted against it. Roberts&#8217; sense of legacy is interesting, and he may look at a chance to rupture the Electoral College as a prime opportunity to stamp <em>The\u00a0 Roberts Court<\/em> on American history &#8211; or even to save the country, if he&#8217;s an alarmist.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, this assumes the usual liberals would vote to circumvent the Electoral College &#8211; again, a political assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the new legal strategy against the Electoral College, the reader responds: You need Garland seated to have a 5-4 split of the court, because both postponing the EC vote and Lessig&#8217;s argument go to SCOTUS. Which presumes SCOTUS is permanently politically polarized. Is this a viable assumption? Justice Kennedy \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/a-thicket-too-far-ctd-4\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}