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COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Episode 19 (original 2020 series)

COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Neal Katyal

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

November 27, 2020


Trump suffered the most massive loss today since the election was called for Joe Biden 20 days ago. The US Court of Appeals wrote an opinion that devastated all of his claims. And it happened to be written by Judge Stefanos Bibas, who was put on the Court by a guy named Donald Trump.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Courtside, everyone, where we discuss the post-election litigation brought by Donald Trump.

0:05.6

It's day 24 after the election.

0:08.0

I hope all of you had lovely Thanksgivings.

0:10.6

I certainly did.

0:11.7

I was celebrating the founders and the idea that in this nation, we the people rule.

0:16.7

And there have been many painful exclusions from that principle.

0:24.4

Most importantly, women and racial minorities, for starters. But the goal has always been to build a more perfect union. And while that

0:31.7

arc hasn't bent straight, it's bent because of people like you who fought to bend it. And then there are people like Donald Trump, the losers, the people who couldn't hack it in a fair competition.

0:44.2

They're the ones that need racial prejudice.

0:46.6

They're the ones that need cheating.

0:48.3

They're the ones that need lying to get ahead.

0:50.8

And today is a perfect encapsulation of that.

0:53.9

Normally in courtside, we do a comprehensive

0:56.8

survey of the landscape, but today only one thing happened. But it is as significant as anything

1:03.2

that's happened since the election was called for Joe Biden three weeks ago tomorrow.

1:08.8

So you might remember that big Pennsylvania litigation. This is the one that

1:12.7

Trump and his minions said was going to tie it all together, showing massive fraud. This is the one that

1:18.7

they brought out the big guns Rudy Giuliani to argue. Well, Rudy Giuliani didn't get to argue it in the

1:25.3

Court of Appeals because the Court of Appeals threw the case out

1:29.1

today saying, quote, the claims have no merit. Now, this opinion is basically a greatest hits compilation

1:37.5

of every legal flaw. You've heard me and other legal analysts say over the last three weeks,

1:43.2

it destroys them on the law,

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