{"id":340,"date":"2021-03-30T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:27:59","slug":"supreme-court-clarifies-rules-for-electoral-college-states-may-restrict-faithless-electors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/court-cases\/electoral-college\/supreme-court-clarifies-rules-for-electoral-college-states-may-restrict-faithless-electors\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Clarifies Rules for Electoral College: States May Restrict Faithless Electors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/LSB\/LSB10515<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court held that states may punish or replace presidential electors who refuse to cast their ballots for the candidate chosen by all voters of that state. Pretty much saying that it is a law that electors need to provide all votes to keep the election fair\/just. Furthermore, in Chiafalo vs. Washington, it states \u00a0that Washington could impose a fine against electors who violate their pledge to support the candidate chosen in the states popular vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/LSB\/LSB10515 Supreme Court held that states may punish or replace presidential electors who refuse to cast their ballots for the candidate chosen by all voters of that state. Pretty much saying that it is a law that electors need to provide all votes to keep the election fair\/just. Furthermore, in Chiafalo vs. Washington, it states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electoral-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}