Swinging for the Fences

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Trump campaign is swinging for the fences in most of its litigation efforts in hopes that at least some of its legal arguments will be successful. But as our podcast hosts remind us, most of the president’s post-election lawsuits are unlikely to change the outcome even if the Trump campaign scores a few victories along the way. “The Trump administration could win, dunk on the opposition, hang on the rim, taunt its opponents, and nothing changes,” David explains. On today’s podcast, David and Sarah explain the overall legal context surrounding the president’s ongoing election litigation efforts and give us the lowdown on the latest voter fraud conspiracy theories. Plus, David and Sarah break down Supreme Court oral arguments for the Affordable Care Act case and discuss a race-based admissions lawsuit at Harvard. Show Notes: -“Fact Check: Debunking the Hammer and Scorecard Conspiracy Theory” by Khaya Himmelman in The Dispatch. -“Fact Check: Explaining the False Allegations About Dominion Voting Systems” by Alec Dent in The Dispatch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to what promises to be a spicy and wide ranging advisory opinions podcast today.
0:27.5	I'm David French with Sarah Isger.
0:29.5	We are from the dispatch the dispatch.com and Sarah we're going to cover a ton.
0:36.6	We're going to cover election lawsuits.
0:39.3	We're going to go state by state and trust me y'all we're not going to go into every single
0:44.6	one of these cases because what you have in general is a pattern a similar pattern holding
0:49.5	which is there are a lot of sort of what you would call penny any lawsuits like lawsuits
0:54.9	that can't possibly make a difference and one or two where the Trump campaign is swinging
1:00.8	for the fences and so we'll go through those.
1:04.7	We're also going to go through some pretty wild developments of viral claims of vote fraud
1:13.3	including one that's just you you got just stay tuned just stay tuned.
1:22.0	It's called hammer and scorecard and that's all I'm going to say right now but it is everywhere.
1:28.6	It is everywhere.
1:29.6	We're also going to talk about a little bit about the Obamacare case and Sarah we're going
1:33.3	to tease something else right?
1:36.4	Yeah so just now the first circuit issued its long expected ruling in favor of Harvard's
1:44.4	race conscious admissions policy this clears the way frankly for the case to go to the Supreme
1:52.1	Court now is the main reason that this is interesting the first circuit opinion is both
1:56.6	not surprising and you know all of these race based admissions cases basically have to
2:05.2	be taken entirely on their own because if you were to apply the same disparate impact
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