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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Philadelphia Story: Votes and Violence in the Keystone State

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, discusses dire threats made in Pennsylvania against Trump voters in the 2024 election and refusal of law enforcement to take any action.

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.8

Chief Justice, may it please the court.

0:08.2

This is Hans von Spikovsky, and this is the latest edition of Case in Point.

0:12.4

Our title today is The Philadelphia Story, Votes and Violence in the Keystone State.

0:18.3

Now, threats, intimidation, and corruption, unfortunately, have had a long

0:23.3

presence in American elections. Tammany Hall in New York was infamous for its corrupt elections

0:29.6

and grafted in bribery than infested city government. Chicago had the notorious vote-stealing machine

0:37.4

of Richard Daly, who was the mayor for twenty one years from

0:40.8

nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy six

0:43.8

uh... even six years after his death in nineteen eighty two

0:48.1

the u s department of justice where i once served prosecuted the largest

0:53.0

photo fraud case in its history, convicted over 60

0:56.9

individuals, and the U.S. attorney at the time estimated that at least 100,000 fraudulent ballots

1:04.1

have been cast in that election. Philadelphia also, unfortunately, along with other parts of

1:10.4

Pennsylvania, has its own sordid history of election fraud and intimidation and threats.

1:17.6

And anyone who thinks that has disappeared, all you need to do is go to the Heritage Fraud, Election Fraud Database, and you'll see that that is not true.

1:27.0

Now, here to talk about a current case going on

1:30.3

over this is my friend, Jay Christian Adams. He is the President General Counsel of the Public

1:36.8

Interest Legal Foundation. He's also a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

1:42.7

Christian and I actually served together in 2017 on President Trump's Presidential Advisory

1:48.7

Commission on Election Integrity.

1:51.6

He was a career lawyer, a Department of Justice in the voting section, which is where I first

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