Testing the Election
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🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen of UC Irvine, author of Election Meltdown, for an update on the state of the election given the president’s COVID diagnosis.
They are joined by Professor Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University, to discuss the president’s undermining of the election.
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| 0:00.0 | It would be best for the country to have President Trump make a full and complete recovery. |
| 0:10.3 | And this election go forward. |
| 0:12.8 | Final segment, election integrity. |
| 0:16.2 | This again is the white supremacy coursing through this language of mass and voter fraud, and they're going to steal the election. |
| 0:25.1 | This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen. Vote, vote, vote. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the law, the courts, the rule of law, the Supreme Court. I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I write about many of those things. And I'm a senior editor at Slate. So we decided to pop up with this off week episode. We taped it all the way on Thursday after the debate. |
| 0:55.9 | And the episode is about the election. |
| 0:58.3 | It was going to update our analysis with Professor Rick Hassan of UC Irvine. |
| 1:03.4 | You'll remember he was my co-conspirator on our election meltdown series that we brought to you back in January and February of 2020. |
| 1:12.7 | That series was based in large part on Rick's book, Election Meltdown, and after Tuesday's disastrous presidential |
| 1:18.8 | debate, when it became clearer than ever that Donald Trump was going to have this closing |
| 1:26.3 | argument to the American people that the entire election |
| 1:29.4 | is a sham and he's running against it, we decided to call on Rick and on Professor Carol |
| 1:35.2 | Anderson of Emory University to kind of get the band back together again. Carol, you may recall, |
| 1:41.0 | joined us for one of the most clarifying conversations we had on the election meltdown series. |
| 1:46.9 | And she brought that same clarity and wisdom and just vast sweeping historical context to the conversation again this week. |
| 1:57.3 | And then in the early hours of Friday morning, Donald Trump confirmed on Twitter that he and the |
| 2:03.4 | First Lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. We're going to stop and wish them both good health. |
| 2:11.9 | NBC is also reporting that Joe Biden has tested negative, although that can obviously change in the coming |
| 2:17.4 | days. |
| 2:18.6 | Judge Amy Coney-Barritt has reportedly tested negative, but she met with Senator Mike Lee this week, |
| 2:25.5 | and he is now positive for coronavirus. |
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