Lawfare Archive: Lawrence Douglas on Presidential Election Concessions
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
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From June 16, 2020: The 2020 presidential election is less than five months away. As the election inches closer and closer, concerns have grown about the possibility that President Trump, should he lose the election, would refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the result. How can we think about that risk? Do we have adequate statutory and constitutional guardrails that protect us from electoral catastrophe? Jacob Schulz sat down with Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and author of the new book “Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020.” They talked about the vulnerabilities in our electoral system, historical examples of mishaps in presidential elections and how to think about the president’s continued hostility toward elections and, in particular, mail-in voting.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:16.8 | LawFair. Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Geo Kokatakis with an episode from the LawFair Archive for August 12, 2023. This week, |
| 0:46.9 | LawFair coverage discussed the recent four-count indictment of former President Donald Trump |
| 0:51.6 | by a DC grand jury for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results. For today's Archive |
| 0:57.2 | episode, I picked an episode from June 16, 2020, in which Jacob Schultz sat down with |
| 1:03.4 | Lawrence Douglas to discuss whether Trump would concede if he lost the 2020 election. They |
| 1:08.5 | covered the vulnerabilities in our electoral system, historical examples of mishaps and |
| 1:13.9 | presidential elections, how to think about the president's hostility toward elections, |
| 1:19.2 | and Trump's hostility toward mail-in voting. |
| 1:31.7 | I'm Jacob Schultz, and this is the LawFair podcast June 16, 2020. The 2020 presidential |
| 1:41.7 | election is less than five months away. As the election inches closer and closer, concerns |
| 1:47.7 | have grown about the possibility that President Trump should he lose would refuse to recognize |
| 1:53.8 | the legitimacy of the result. How can we think about that risk? Do we have adequate |
| 1:59.8 | statutory and constitutional guardrails to protect us from all sorts of electoral catastrophe? |
| 2:05.8 | I sat down with Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grossel, professor of law, jurisprudence, |
| 2:12.0 | and social thought in Amherst College, an author of the new book, Will He Go, Trump and |
| 2:18.5 | the looming election meltdown in 2020. We talked about vulnerabilities in our electoral |
| 2:24.0 | system, historical examples of mishaps and presidential elections, and how to think |
| 2:29.7 | about the president's continued hostility toward elections, and in particular mail-in voting. |
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