The Electoral College Allows Institutionalized Coup

 
In this last presidential election, I am beginning to think of the electoral college as the device that allowed Trump to become president by an institutionalized coup.

He didn't win the popular vote, Hillary did. But, the electoral college allowed him to push aside the vote of the people and take power.

If this happen in another country, such as Belarus that is having its own troubles right now, the United States and countries around the world would not recognized the new power.

At the Supreme Court, Trump and the GOP have solidified a decades long battle to place judges on the court that agree with the institutionalized coup.

Finally, with Trump stopping the census count early, he is hoping to take power away from congressional districts and states that tend not to support him his co-conspirators the GOP, thereby ensuring the GOP will be able to continue with their coup into the foreseeable future.

Department of Commerce v. New York (18-966) SCOTUS Citizenship question on the Census

Here is a line from the SCOTUS decision on the citizenship question on the Census (Department of Commerce v. New York (18-966)):

"The Secretary did not violate the Enumeration Clause or the Census Act in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire,...

but the District Court was warranted in remanding the case back to the agency where the evidence tells a story that does not match the Secretary’s explanation for his decision."

In the first part of the statement, the court states that the Department of Commerce did not violate the Enumeration Clause by placing in the census a question about the applicant's citizenship.

But, second part of the statement states that sense the Department of Commerce lied during their defense of their actions, the case was sent back.

In other words, the agency outright lied.

The funny thing about this is that the statement from the court says that if the Department of Commerce had not lied, the Department of Commerce and President Trump would have won.

Just tell the truth.