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A Harvard Law Professor's Call To Derail The Trump Train

Professor Larry Lessig argues that there's no good reason for electors to veto the people's choice: Hillary Clinton.

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Lawrence Lessig (via Wikimedia)

Lawrence Lessig (via Wikimedia)

Conventional wisdom tells us that the electoral college requires that the person who lost the popular vote this year must nonetheless become our president. That view is an insult to our framers. It is compelled by nothing in our Constitution. It should be rejected by anyone with any understanding of our democratic traditions  — most important, the electors themselves.

— Professor Lawrence Lessig, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that the electors are not required to, and have no good reason to, override the people’s choice for president: Hillary Clinton, winner of the popular vote.

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