Noah Feldman, Columnist

Appeals Court Opens the Door to Electoral College Chaos

If a state’s electors can go rogue, then who’s really choosing the next president?

August 25, 2019 at 1:21 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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A federal appeals court has held that members of the Electoral College have a constitutional right to vote for a different presidential candidate than the one they swore to support — and whom the voting public in their states actually chose.

It’s a terrible holding.