{"id":1390,"date":"2019-03-27T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:21:15","slug":"with-a-republican-texas-elector-defecting-from-trump-the-hamilton-plan-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"With A Republican Texas Elector Defecting From Trump, The ‘Hamilton Plan’ Gains Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group known as the Hamilton Electors\u2014Electoral College members who will cast their electoral votes to help officially decide the president of the United States\u2014has\u00a0determined the president-elect to be unqualified, adding yet another wrinkle to this historic election. Now, The group has\u00a0gained a new\u00a0ally in Republican Texas elector Christopher Suprun, who,\u00a0in The New York Times,<\/em> skewered Donald Trump for eschewing leadership and responsibility in the run up to the electoral vote on December 19.<\/p>\n

The role of the Electoral College has been met with disdain for quite a while. Many have called for its abolishment altogether, especially after Donald Trump took home the election last month. But the edicts of Hamiltonian Federalism does draw a blueprint: The Electoral College is to determine if a candidate is \u201cqualified, not engaged in demagogy, and independent from foreign influence.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has actively flaunted his ability to skirt those ideas with impunity. While he has decided to better address his\u00a0conflicts of interest, there is still a question as to the role his children will play\u00a0in his presidency. His campaign\u2019s divisiveness has not ceased since he was elected, continuing to further drive a wedge between American citizens.<\/p>\n

The Hamilton Electors\u00a0also gained the support of Harvard\u2019s Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership\u00a0Lawrence Lessig, who has established an \u201celectors trust.\u201d The trust will provide free counsel to electors who wish to abstain from voting for Trump, according to The Week<\/em>. The firm Durie Tangri will be providing the free counsel anonymously, ensuring that any electors deciding to move away from Mr. Trump can do so without repercussion.<\/p>\n

The Hamilton Electors are eight Electoral College voters\u00a0from Washington state and Colorado who are opposed to Trump. Their plan is to gather 37 other electors to cast their votes elsewhere, preferably for\u00a0a moderate Republican like John Kasich of Ohio, punting the result to the House of Representatives. The House would then have to vote for the presidency, though their support for an alternate candidate would in no way be\u00a0guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Mr. Suprun, a 9\/11 first responder,\u00a0put his stake in the ground with this statement.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a big year for Alexander Hamilton. Not only because Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s play saved our artistic souls, but also because the man who wrote The Federalist Papers<\/em> is now in a\u00a0position to affect the outcome of the most meaningful national election of\u00a0our lifetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group known as the Hamilton Electors\u2014Electoral College members who will cast their electoral votes to help officially decide the president of the United States\u2014has\u00a0determined the president-elect to be unqualified, adding yet another wrinkle to this historic election. Now, The group has\u00a0gained a new\u00a0ally in Republican Texas elector Christopher Suprun, who,\u00a0in The New York Times,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}