Dangerous National Popular Vote Movement Trying to Cancel Minorities and Small States (Constitution news round-up)

Documentary defends Electoral College from anti-republic National Popular Vote movement; NPV would run roughshod over minorities and small states
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/1/safeguard-electoral-college-story-documentary-offe/

Separation of Powers: D.C. Circuit panel rules there is no statute giving Congress the power to enforce a subpoena against former White House counsel Don McGahn
https://www.theepochtimes.com/appeals-court-deals-blow-to-house-subpoena-power-in-don-mcgahn-case_3482545.html

Discrimination: Washington state loses bid to block Trump administration dismantling of LGBT protection rule; state can’t show how it is harmed (W.D. WA)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/washington-bid-to-block-trump-lgbtq-bias-rule-suffers-setback

5A: Gitmo detainees, as aliens detained outside the sovereign territory of the U.S., do not have due process rights (D.C. Circuit)
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/D0E6FA5B87B19006852585D2004F674C/$file/19-5079-1858799.pdf

6A: Whose right to jury trial is it?  Government consent required for defendant to waive right to jury trial and have a bench trial in federal cases, but not when there are extraordinary circumstances like a pandemic
https://reason.com/2020/08/28/defendant-agrees-to-bench-trial-but-government-insists-on-jury-trial/

14A: enhancing penalty just because a defendant belongs to a gang violates substantive due process - “guilt is personal” (Arizona Supreme Court)
https://reason.com/2020/09/01/arizona-supreme-court-strikes-down-sentence-enhancement-for-criminal-street-gang-members/

The Framers did not put a right to vote in the Constitution because they distrusted democracy and wanted to safeguard other rights from mob rule
https://theprint.in/world/why-the-right-to-vote-is-not-in-the-us-constitution/490972/

Shame! Protesters chant ‘Death to America’.  We have the ayatollahs for that.  What do we need you for?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/antifa-black-lives-matter-march-oakland-chanting-death-america/

Shame! D.C. task force tries to cancel the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial, gets their heads handed to them after fierce backlash
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/crackpot-dc-task-force-deletes-page-leftists-recommend-removing-renaming-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-franklin-school/