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the state legislatures pick a new slate of electors. jake tapper: the letter claimed that the us department of justice's investigations have "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the state of georgia". was that true? richard donoghue: no. jake tapper: while the letter was sent solely by jeff clark, it was written with the help of a new justice department employee named ken klukowski who, according to the committee, was also working with john eastman, the architect of the multi-step plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored some of eastman's unconstitutional theories. richard donoghue: would have created chaos in the states. i think that would have been disastrous for our country and our constitution. jake tapper: but wasn't that the point of it, the letter, to create that chaos? richard donoghue: i think so. yes. disturbed by the letter, donoghue immediately responded to clark writing, "this would be a grave step for the department
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president-elect biden and hold hearings and basically have the state legislatures pick a new slate of electors. jake tapper: the letter claimed that the us department of justice's investigations have "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the state of georgia". was that true? richard donoghue: no. jake tapper: while the letter was sent solely by jeff clark, it was written with the help of a new justice department employee named ken klukowski who, according to the committee, was also working with john eastman, the architect of the multi-step plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored some of eastman's unconstitutional theories. richard donoghue: would have created chaos in the states. i think that would have been disastrous for our country and our constitution. jake tapper: but wasn't that the point of it, the letter, to create that chaos? richard donoghue: i think so. yes. disturbed by the letter, donoghue immediately responded
but i want to underscore, we need a federal standard. we need to bring back roe. we need to codify roe. and to do that we have to elect joe biden and we've got to win back congress. if we don't do that this court is going to be continually dealing with these cases as different circuits and different states come up with different outcomes and more and more americans' lives are at risk. >> mara, let me talk to you about an excerpt from a piece that was in slate about how women's health decisions have changed since dobbs. it's by mark joseph stern. he writes, "the conive justices could use the cases in idaho and texas to draw a line in the sand, creating a nationwide guarantee of abortion access when a patient's health is at risk. but doing so would mean admittg that last time around the court got it wrong, that oving roe did not remove the judiciary as mini just said from the abortion debate but shifted life or death decisions about pregnancy into the hands of judges who know nothing about the practice of medicine. there's little reason to believe that the supreme court will own up to its mistakes. the justices can, after all,
condemned to the gallows and it still exists but it is effectively a discretionary and symbolic gift because — discretionary and symbolic gift because it doesn't quash the conviction so in many respects it wouldn't — conviction so in many respects it wouldn't cut the mustard with many of those _ wouldn't cut the mustard with many of those affected. the second option would _ of those affected. the second option would he _ of those affected. the second option would be to find some way to send all the _ would be to find some way to send all the cases en masse to the court of appeal— all the cases en masse to the court of appeal perhaps with the intervention of the crown prosecution service taking over from the post _ prosecution service taking over from the post office, so keir starmer has mentioned — the post office, so keir starmer has mentioned that today. that is also logistically very challenging. it would — logistically very challenging. it would also raise issues from critics on the _ would also raise issues from critics on the nature of the appeals process, _ on the nature of the appeals process, which they say from other miscarriage — process, which they say from other miscarriage cases makes it too hard for something like that to take place — for something like that to take place quickly. the third option, and this seems— place quickly. the third option, and this seems to have growing support in parliament, a one—off bill to wipe _ in parliament, a one—off bill to wipe the — in parliament, a one—off bill to wipe the slate clean, for parliament to expressly intervene and say, in this exceptional situation we are going _ this exceptional situation we are going to — this exceptional situation we are going to declare all of these people to be innocent of the crime. that raises _ to be innocent of the crime. that raises questions about judicial independence. it is not parliament's
speaker: an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to congress. jake tapper: this desperate scheme to overthrow the election results had been conceived weeks earlier. speaker: who do you remember being involved in those early discussions around the thanksgiving time regarding having alternate electors meet? cassidy hutchinson: mr. giuliani, several of mr giuliani's associates, mr. meadows. jake tapper: one of the biggest supporters of this outrageous attempt to subvert american democracy was law professor and trump attorney john eastman. john eastman: the entire executive branch is headed by one guy-- kaitlan collins: trump saw him on fox news and shortly after that, he was in the oval office. jake tapper: fraudulent electors were just step one in eastman's plan which he outlined in these memos and justified with false claims of "illegal actions by state
that they set aside the electors assigned to support president-elect biden and hold hearings and basically have the state legislatures pick a new slate of electors. jake tapper: the letter claimed that the us department of justice's investigations have "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the state of georgia". was that true? richard donoghue: no. jake tapper: while the letter was sent solely by jeff clark, it was written with the help of a new justice department employee named ken klukowski who, according to the committee, was also working with john eastman, the architect of the multi-step plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored some of eastman's unconstitutional theories. richard donoghue: would have created chaos in the states. i think that would have been disastrous for our country and our constitution. jake tapper: but wasn't that the point of it, the letter,
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then it was december 12th. they were doing things in the day and a half. it wasn't their finest moment in terms of the merits. what questions? that's intriguing here because i don't think i've ever seen a case, alex, that combine such political moment with such a legal blake slate. trump just said, as his question presented, the normally have very discrete questions of law, he just said, did colorado get it wrong, and through seven claims to the supreme court. they haven't ever really analyze this provisions so the parties now, besides going and lickety-split, they have to brief these possibilities, and none of them is really pristine. people will be talking to see which ones that will go for. in terms of the decision, i think, when you're talking this kind of speed, we might expect it within a couple weeks. they're obviously have their eye on the calendar.