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Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca. Ms Baca believes that the Electoral College, which has chosen US presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.” This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way - also unsuccessful - to circumvent the outcome. But unlike Donald Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneouvers has failed to change the result of this year’s electio...

Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca. Ms. Baca believes the Electoral College, which has chosen American presidents since George Washington, “has absolutely no reason to be.” This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her state’s rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way — also unsuccessful — to circumvent the outcome. But unlike Donald J. Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneuvers has failed to change the result o...

Papers because there's a heavy discussion out there has to what happens monday and i want to disabuse cnn viewers of false information. i think i just did that. smerconish, donald trump may be the most unfit president we have ever chosen. i wish the ewelcome tors could save us from ourselves. they won't. those electors are not men most capable as envisioned by hamilton. that was my whole point. one more tweet. quickly, do it if you got it. i could do that a full hour. no? all right. one more. isn't our america current situation in part exactly what our forefathers designed the electoral colleg...

But nevertheless empowered with this sacred trust. joining me now a man who feels differently, the lawyer who launched something called the electors trust and has been working with suprun and other electors deciding if they can and should vote against the popular vote. lawrence lessig. professor, tell me how i'm wrong? why should we be entrusting these 538 who we really know nothing about to change the will of the electorate? >> well, michael, i didn't hear you argue whether we should or shouldn't, i heard you describe article -- the 12th amendment to the constitution. i thought you did a very...

>> goodern moi morning, chris. it's a complex world and you have to look at fighter counterterrorism and recognize its complexity. this was a speech, a wide-ranging speech the president used to tout his administration's accomplishments in the fight against terror groups. the killing of osama bin laden, weakening of al qaeda. and the promise made so far in the war against isis. while he didn't say president-elect trump's name, the president did press his case for closing the prison at guantanamo bay for maintaining the ban on torture. these are two areas where it's clear he has views at odds wi...