Lawfare Daily: Mary McCord on the Effort to Hold Fake Electors Accountable
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In 2022, Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and Stafford Rosenbaum filed a lawsuit against ten Wisconsin fraudulent electors, Kenneth Chesebro, and James Troupis for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Earlier this year, ICAP reached two settlements with the defendants, which resulted in thousands of pages of text messages, emails, and other correspondence being turned over, providing new insight into how exactly the fake electors scheme was developed and implemented in Wisconsin and across the country.
Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with ICAP Executive Director Mary McCord to discuss the settlements reached with the Wisconsin fraudulent electors, what new information was revealed in the thousands of pages of documents turned over, and whether the recent criminal charges filed against Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis, and Mike Roman revealed any new information.
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you. The fraudulent elector scheme was an absolutely critical prong of this multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn the results of the election and it was the |
| 1:16.5 | narrative that formed the basis for the attackers to feel like they were justified in that attack. |
| 1:23.0 | It's the Lawfare Podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Anna Hecky, Associate Editor for Communications at Law Fair, |
| 1:29.0 | with Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection |
| 1:34.5 | and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown Law. |
| 1:37.0 | Some of the final text messages and things we have from January 6th |
| 1:42.4 | show Ken Chessbro's sending photos we have Troopus responding with well done Ken. History is |
| 1:58.8 | made and a clapping hands emoji and, and then Ken Chess |
| 2:03.1 | saying, tear gas in the capital, I just caught a whiff, |
| 2:07.0 | lull. |
| 2:08.5 | Today, we're talking about I-Caps lawsuit |
| 2:10.6 | against fake electors in Wisconsin and the recent criminal charges filed against. lawsuit against So today you're joining us to talk about a lawsuit that your organization, the Institute for |
| 2:25.2 | Constitutional Advocacy and Protection has been involved with in Wisconsin with the fake electors. |
| 2:31.1 | Can you talk about who you are representing and who you were suing? |
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