#005: The Little Landslide That Could: Election Integrity and Decision 2024
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This week on Case in Point, and only hours after one of the most significant Republican sweeps in a generation, we sit down with Hans Von Spakovsky, Senior Manager of Heritage's Election Law Reform Initiative. Hans offers his thoughts on the landmark 2024 election, the likelihood of future litigation on political races, the Supreme Court's election-related emergency docket orders, and why election integrity should matter to every American.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.8 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the card. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to this week's post-election edition of Case in Point, the legal show for regular people. |
| 0:14.8 | I am Sarah Partial Perry. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and I'm really excited |
| 0:22.4 | because today there is lots of buzz around the results of Tuesday. I'm going to be talking to |
| 0:28.7 | Hans von Spikovsky, who is also a senior legal fellow here and the manager of our election |
| 0:34.5 | reform project, and boy, has it had a year. In fact, since the beginning of the year, |
| 0:39.5 | more than 200 election-related cases, both in federal and state court, have been filed. And sure |
| 0:45.9 | enough, we saw what could have been the biggest outcome in the modern century of voting. |
| 0:53.1 | We saw Donald Trump take the White House in a landslide. As of today, |
| 0:58.2 | and we're recording this on Wednesday, he has 292 electoral college votes to secure the presidency, |
| 1:05.1 | and we are still waiting on the calling of whether or not the House of Representatives will go to |
| 1:10.4 | Republicans or Democrats. |
| 1:12.2 | Obviously, the Senate has obviously been taken by the GOP at this point, and there are a few |
| 1:17.4 | races left in the House still to trickle in, but it is looking very good for, I believe, |
| 1:23.2 | the party of reason. We've got lots to talk about today. We're going to talk with Hans |
| 1:27.2 | about his experience in the Federal Election Commission. We're going to talk with Hans about his |
| 1:27.8 | experience in the Federal Election Commission. We're going to talk a little bit about what we |
| 1:32.1 | saw at the Supreme Court and the determinations that they made on election-related cases |
| 1:37.6 | coming out of four different states across the country. We're going to talk about the election |
| 1:42.1 | integrity project that we run here at the Heritage Foundation |
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