Bob Herbert has this must-read column on potential legal challenges to the California electoral college initiative, should it apply for the ballot. It quotes Laurence Tribe as saying that the measure clearly violates Article II. Rick Pildes more sensibly says it is not an open and shut case. Though it could give Tribe the chance to be on both losing sides of the Article II argument, just as he was on both losing sides of the equal protection argument (in Bush v. Gore and the California recall litigation).