Legal Fallout from Biden's Exit (with Joyce Vance & Rick Hasen)

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On a special episode of Stay Tuned, Preet Bharara is joined by his CAFE Insider co-host and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance and UCLA law professor and founder of Election Law Blog Rick Hasen to discuss the legal dilemmas stemming from President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential race. Could Republican legal challenges interfere with the election? And, if Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic nominee, does she inherit Biden’s war chest? In the bonus, exclusively for members of CAFE Insider, Preet and Joyce discuss the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after her testimony before the House Oversight Committee about the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Sign up to listen. For show notes and a transcript of the episode click HERE. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is a special edition of
0:09.4	stay tuned. I'm Preet Barara. President Joe Biden has bowed out of the presidential race, leaving the
0:16.0	country in uncharted election law territory. What kinds of legal challenges could Trump's
0:20.8	supporters bring and how meritorious might they be and if
0:25.1	Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee does she
0:29.0	inherit the Biden campaign's war chest. To help us understand these issues, I'm joined by Rick
0:33.8	Hassan, a law professor at UCLA School of Law and the founder of election law
0:38.4	blog and Joyce Vance, former US attorney and my Cafe Insider co-host.
0:44.7	And in an exclusive bonus for members of Cafe Insider, Joyce and I discussed the resignation
0:49.2	of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheetle after her testimony before the House Oversight Committee relating
0:54.6	to the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
0:59.2	Professor Rick Hasn, welcome to the show.
1:00.6	It's good to have you.
1:01.6	It's great to be with you so Joyce and I have done a little bit of
1:05.3	discussion on the show previously about some of the legal implications that arise from the
1:10.4	interesting election cycle that we're having that just got a lot more interesting and nutty.
1:16.2	So I'll start and then Joyce you should chime in with questions as well.
1:21.4	So now Kamala Harris is not the nominee yet.
1:24.0	Biden is certainly not the nominee yet.
1:27.0	And yet we have begun to hear rumblings about legal challenges,
1:31.0	no surprise, from the Republican side and from Trump supporters,
1:35.2	what could possibly be the basis for a legal challenge in any state or federally
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