Why Frodo Baggins made an appearance at the U.S. Supreme Court

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Frodo Baggins is now forever part of the U.S. Supreme Court's historical record after being used in a line of hypothetical questioning during Wednesday oral arguments on the Electoral College.

for asking more questions during the court's new pandemic-prompted telephone system during oral arguments than he has asked for more than a decade in the courtroom. On Wednesday, when posing a hypothetical to Jason Harrow, representing a so-called faithless elector from Colorado, the newly loquacious justice used Baggins as a case study.

"The elector who had promised to vote for the winning candidate could suddenly say, you now, I'm going to vote for Frodo Baggins. I really like Frodo Baggins. And you're saying, under your system, you can't do anything about that," Thomas said."Your honour, I think there is something to be done, because that would be a vote for a non-person. No matter how big a fan many people are of Frodo Baggins," Harrow said.

 

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