{"id":21026,"date":"2020-01-19T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62593"},"modified":"2020-01-19T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:55:18","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-colorados-presidential-electors-case-heres-why-the-state-thinks-it-will-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/u-s-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-colorados-presidential-electors-case-heres-why-the-state-thinks-it-will-win\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado\u2019s presidential electors case. Here\u2019s why the state thinks it will win."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Supreme Court.<\/strong>
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Colorado\u2019s appeal of a federal court ruling<\/a>  that allows presidential electors to ignore the will of the people and back whichever candidate they want.<\/p>\n

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold last October petitioned the court to hear the case<\/a>, hoping to avoid potential legal and political chaos come November. Griswold has said the outcome affects \u201cthe very foundation of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weiser praised the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, saying the case is \u201cripe for review\u201d and that he\u2019s hopeful the panel will rule in Colorado\u2019s favor and not fundamentally alter the Electoral College, the U.S. system of electing presidents.<\/p>\n

The situation dates back to 2016, when then-Secretary of State Wayne Williams removed a presidential elector who refused to vote for Hilary Clinton \u2014 even though Clinton won the popular vote in Colorado. In August, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Denver, ruled that the removal<\/a> of the elector, Micheal Baca, was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Baca, one of Colorado\u2019s nine electoral voters, tried to cast his ballot for then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, instead of Clinton as part of an attempt by a handful electors across the country to block Republican Donald Trump from becoming president. But the 10th Circuit found that Colorado didn\u2019t have authority to remove Baca as an elector, eliminating the state\u2019s ability to bind electors to follow the will of Colorado voters. <\/p>\n

Read more via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at <\/em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Supreme Court.Courtesy USDA The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Colorado\u2019s appeal of a federal court ruling  that allows presidential electors to ignore the will of the people and back whichever candidate they want. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold last October petitioned the court to hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 13:08:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}