OA576: Election Laws and Lies, with Lawrence Lessig
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Last week, you heard us play a few clips of John Eastman lying his ass off on Lawrence Lessig's Another Way podcast. Well, now Professor Lessig is here to give us an expert breakdown of some of the election law issues raised by team big lie. Also, how is our election system vulnerable to the next Republican attack in 2024?
Links: Friday eastman pleadings, court response, Opening Arguments on Twitter live tweet thread, Ruling, 1/6 brief, Eastman memo, 3 US Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress, Longer Eastman memo, Eastman reply
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
| 0:49.6 | I know my rights. No, you don't! That's the problem. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.9 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.9 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.3 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 576 and we all definitely just heard that new intro, Andrew. |
| 1:25.9 | How was it for you? Was it as good for you as it was for me because it was good for me? |
| 1:31.7 | Definitely. That Simpson's and our futureama quote was amazing. |
| 1:35.5 | As always, we have no idea. But I'm sure it's great. Can't wait for today's show, Lawrence Lessig, |
| 1:44.3 | back on the show, I can't wait to talk to him and he was right in the middle of this thing |
| 1:48.5 | with the Eastman documents. |
| 1:51.8 | Yeah, I am not letting this go. So I really think that it's important to keep this out in the public consciousness |
| 1:59.2 | and this has really changed my perspective on whether it's possible to hold Donald Trump accountable |
| 2:07.6 | for his actions on the 16th's or action. I want to say this because I thought I was pretty |
| 2:14.1 | clear on 574 but our buddy Randall Iason messaged me afterwards and said, you know, you should be |
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