Trump's Possible Legal Strategy
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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If neither candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes, the decision may go to the U.S. House for a state-by-state vote.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump legal team has come up with a interesting creative approach to how to prevent the electors from electing Biden as president of the United States and turning the presidency over to |
| 0:16.4 | him. Will it work? You'll hear my analysis on the dirt show. You'll also hear my |
| 0:22.1 | analysis of a conflict I and others are having over the election to the Senate of the Reverend Warnick, who is a Democrat, but who has expressed strong anti-Israel views. |
| 0:37.0 | These and other issues on the Dershove. |
| 0:40.0 | The Wall Street Journal has an intriguing article entitled, |
| 0:45.0 | What is Trump's Legal Strategy, try to block certification of |
| 0:50.3 | Biden victory in states. |
| 0:54.0 | Look, I have no objection to any candidate pursuing |
| 0:59.3 | every possible legal and constitutional remedy and I applaud Trump's lawyers for being |
| 1:07.8 | creative and looking to the text of the Constitution looking to the laws of various states in order to exhaust |
| 1:16.8 | every possible legal remedy before conceding. |
| 1:20.7 | That's their right. |
| 1:22.3 | Is it the right thing to do? I leave that to |
| 1:25.5 | viewers and listeners. That's a political judgment. But legally, they certainly are |
| 1:31.0 | entitled to pursue every remedy. |
| 1:33.4 | Now, what do they have in mind? |
| 1:36.8 | Let me explain what the Constitution provides |
| 1:41.6 | and then talk about an historical precedent that I'm sure the |
| 1:46.3 | Trump people are thinking about. |
| 1:49.7 | Constitutionally, under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, which was enacted after the |
| 1:57.0 | fiasco involving Jefferson and Burr and Hamilton, which we all know about from the musical Hamilton, where neither candidate got a |
| 2:07.5 | majority because Burr decided to undo the deal he had made with Jefferson. |
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