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Pepe 222 points ago +231 / -9

People here seem to be celebrating. However, this does nothing to prevent states from mandating their electors vote with the "national popular vote". In fact, it only hardens that, as the SCOTUS has already ruled in 1952 (according to this article) that states can do exactly that. And now, electors in those states are not allowed to go rogue.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1952 that states do not violate the Constitution when they require electors to pledge that they will abide by the results of the popular vote. But the justices had never before said whether it is constitutional to enforce those pledges.

This interstate agreement is by far the largest immediate danger to our electoral college.