{"id":283193,"date":"2016-12-07T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colorado-presidential-electors-file-lawsuit-to-block-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T23:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:58:59","slug":"colorado-presidential-electors-file-lawsuit-to-block-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/colorado-presidential-electors-file-lawsuit-to-block-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado presidential electors file lawsuit to block Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two Democratic members of the Electoral College in the US state of Colorado have taken legal action to change a state law that requires them to elect the winner of the state\u2019s popular vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich were the two presidential electors who filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday, despite their earlier pledges to support Democratic nominee Hillary\u00a0Clinton, who won the Colorado\u2019s nine electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>The defiant electors said they had joined the so-called \u201cMoral Electors\u201d movement, a group of presidential electors who aim to persuade Republican electors in other states to choose a third-party candidate instead of President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(65, 65, 65)\">The pair also proposed a new plan to choose a Republican candidate other than\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(65, 65, 65)\">Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The movement\u2019s ultimate goal is preventing Trump from reaching the 270-vote threshold required to officially win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing the popular vote by a significant margin during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/07\/496891\/US-Electoral-College-Colorado-Trump-Clinton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Democratic members of the Electoral College in the US state of Colorado have taken legal action to change a state law that requires them to elect the winner of the state\u2019s popular vote. Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich were the two presidential electors who filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday, despite their earlier pledges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}