Auros (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} auros) wrote, |
Arguably the Sixteenth Amendment was intended to be interpreted as requiring a special election already (while allowing a gubernatorial short-term / interim appointment), but the vast majority of states currently allow unfettered gubernatorial appointment. Getting some clarity on that seems worthwhile to me, and the overall effect is non-partisan (if you look at the numbers, there are currently about 29 senators, basically evenly split, with the exact number depending on how you count Sanders and Lieberman, who have a governor in their state of the opposite party), but I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion.
