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The Dershow

Trump's Possible Legal Strategy

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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