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Lawyer. i know the power of the judiciary to ensure that the will of the voters is abided by in election returns. finally, people like you, the media and activists speaking out and putting a spotlight on what is going on, on the fact that republicans are planning a constitutional crisis by targeting election certification processes. by putting spotlight on it we might be able to head some of it off. . >> it does feel like the people in the cross hairs, the elections officials largely a lot of them volunteers, a lot of them even in paid positions, nonpartisan officials who have been doing this ...

All of us to take the necessary actions. that means in blue states, by the way, improving voting laws substantially from where they are in many states where democrats have the ability to make voting easier. it includes recruiting and training and making sure that good people are filling the slots of local election officials. there's been a lot of reporting recently about how good election officials are being driven out of their positions because trump crazies are driving them out. of course, the courts have to be a piece of this. you know, i started my career as a recount lawyer. i know the po...

Constitutional crisis, by targeting election certification processes. by putting a spotlight on where we might be able to head some of it off. >> it does also feel like the people who are in the crosshairs here, the proverbial crosshairs, the election officials, largely a lot of them volunteers, a lot of them even in paid positions, technocratic nonpartisan officials who have been doing this stuff just as experts, quietly in the background, without much, fuss for all these years before, those people getting hounded out of their positions, those people getting forced out of the way, it's a trag...

One of the things richard donahue writes in his email in response to this is we as the justice department don't advise states as to how to handle their election certification processes. this is simply a misunderstanding and an abuse of the power of the justice department and clark clearly didn't understand that and did not have the justice department's interests at heart. so, you know, i think we should also -- yes, there are reasons to criticize both jeffrey rosen and richard donoughe, the two people to whom this was sent because they were complicit in any number of let's say untoward actions...