Without an ounce of self-awareness, 106 of Republican members of the House of Representatives signed an amicus brief for the Texas anti-democracy lawsuit in which they claim the majority of voters nationally should decide whose president–and they did this in support of a idiotic argument to support the losing campaign of lame-duck Donald Trump, who didn’t win the plurality of the popular in 2016.
“While the Constitution of 1787 made no mention of and did not presume that the President would be elected by popular vote, the presumption of legal voting and majority rule, articulated in Texas’ decision in Ramsey v. Dunlop above, was implicit,” the filing, reported by Brian Heath of Reuters, states.
The GOP has won the popular vote for president just once since 1992, and that was in 2004 in the reelection of George W. Bush, who didn’t win the popular vote in 2000.