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This 107 character got a coalition together and it was drafted and then now it's been circulating and allegedly has the attention of the White House.

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, here with Molly Roberts and Anna Bauer, both Lawfare

Senior Editors. One big risk is that the president issues this order. He issues it close to the election,

and it's unclear to states whether they're supposed to comply.

It's also possible that red states would go ahead and comply,

even though their laws haven't been properly adjusted to do this,

that they would say, oh, yeah, we're going to try to enforce all of that.

Today, we're talking election craziness.

A draft executive order has been floating around that would assert presidential control over elections all over the country.

How seriously should we take it?

What would it do?

And who was behind it?

All right, Molly, start us out. How did you get on this crazy subject?

Well, I unfortunately often read the president's truth social posts. And I'd been seeing some ominous looking

tweets, truths, whatever we're supposed to call them, where the president was saying that he was

going to present a quote-unquote irrefutable legal argument in the form of an executive order

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