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Frodo Baggins Appears in the U.S. Supreme Court,

in a hypothetical question posed by Justice Thomas.

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The hypothetical, asked in the Colorado presidential elector case, was what a state could do if an elector announced that he would throw away his vote by voting for Frodo Baggins.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.