Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
Elizabeth Jo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now you could say, well, maybe that's just a lapse on the part of the drafters, but maybe not, because that suggests there's some ambiguity as to whether the powers in Article Two are just examples or are they the only powers the president has?
Now, the spoiler, of course, is that every president has said, no, we have more.
We have more than what's in Article Two, right?
And practically speaking, we've treated presidents as having some more power than what's specifically laid out in Article II, but of course the contested part is always how much power.
So that's the opener.
Um, section one also describes our system of using electors and the electoral college.
Each state appoints electors equal to the number of senators and electors.
And Article two is a compromise, right, between directly electing the president by popular vote or having the president selected by Congress directly.
There is of course a popular vote, but when we all vote, we are actually voting for a slate of electors appointed by our state's political parties.
And that means the important number is not fifty one percent of everyone voting, but two hundred and seventy of the five hundred and thirty-eight electoral votes up for grabs.
Because of Article two, a presidential candidate can win the popular vote but lose the electoral college and not become president, like Hillary Clinton did in two thousand sixteen and Al Gore did in two thousand.
This system is so central that, of course, we did have a fake electors plot during the twenty twenty presidential election.
And that was when Republican officials in several battleground states came up with a scheme to submit fake certificates claiming that Trump had actually won in states like Arizona and Georgia.
And these were acts designed to overturn the legitimate election of Joe Biden.
And dozens.
Right.
It just was
Right, but it was also both dastardly and completely inept.
No one really thought it was gonna work.
So dozens of people have been indicted on these state criminal charges for participating in these fake elector schemes.
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