Utah Lawmakers Look To Undermine Popular Election Of U.S. Senators

Utah Lawmakers Look To Undermine Popular Election Of U.S. Senators: pSome Republicans in the Utah State Senate want to move “the clock back 99 years to the era before the 17th Amendment was ratified,” the Salt Lake Tribune notes, with a bill that would let state lawmakers exert greater influence in the election of U.S. senators. Before the ratification of the 17th Amendment, state legislatures [...]/p