Professor and former Fordham Law Dean, John D. Feerick ’61, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on David Blake’s quest to convince the American voters that they should reclaim their democratic right to elect the vice president of the United States.
In an era of political tectonic shifts from President Trump shaking up White House protocols to Democratic presidential candidates calling for ending the Electoral College, Mr. Blake is aiming to spark a change to two centuries of precedent for the way vice presidents are elected.
“We’re living through a time when a lot of norms are getting thrown out the window,” Mr. Blake said over breakfast in Salt Lake City. “We have to start thinking about how we protect the office of the vice presidency.”
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John Feerick, a former Fordham University Law School dean who wrote the 25th Amendment that codified the relationship between the president and vice president, said Mr. Blake would add to the current glut of people running for national office.“Right now, we’ve got so many candidates, if you add to that names of people running for the vice presidency, the American voter certainly is going to be entertained by it, but I’m not sure that it’s going to be a good thing,” Mr. Feerick said.