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A newly-released legal memo providing Trump's White House with advice on how to overturn the 2020 election offers insight into how the GOP might try again in 2024.
Election. the conduct of elections. it requires in the conduct that you conduct yourself honorably. you treat ef voter equally and provide access to the right to vote for every eligible voter. this is what iowa likes to say it stands for which is being first in the nation. whether you're first or last, when you go to vote, you should be able to vote with the same quality of democracy that every one else expects. that's why the freedom to vote act is essential to the protection of our democracy. >> always a pleasure to have you on. thank you for your time. lawrence tribe is a constitutional l...
Protection of our democracy. >> stacey abrams always nice to have you on, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> constitutional law expert at harvard law school has written his book extensively on the attempted 2020 coup, what we can do to prevent the next one, and he joins me now. lawrence, i feel like we've all learned a lot about the plumbing of the electoral college, and the complicated system by which under both the united states constitution, the 12th amendment, and the electoral college act, and state law, you get this sort of transmission from the votes go in on the president comes ...
You're going to need to have rules that make it harder to engage in false claims that the vote total was what it was, but legal change won't be enough we also need to have a political strategy because it's not clear that these changes are going to come either from congress or the states and that there are going to be enough next time >> the big federal law here is the electoral count act, which was passed in 1887 it was ten years after one of the most contested elections in american history in 1876, in which the person with less votes, the popular vote got to be president of the united states ...
The electrical count act, which is actually passed in 1870, it was ten years after one of the most contested elections in american history, in 1876, in which the person with less votes, the popular vote got to be president of the united states. . john eastman and the famous eastman memo is him basically saying we can use gaps in that law and it's tension with the 12th amendment to get our guy in. how important is it to change that? well i think it's essential. , and i'm hoping that after the january six commission goes through and sees exactly would have been. the last time around that they're...