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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Benjamin Wittes sat down with an all-Lawfare crew to discuss the election. Scott Anderson, David Priess, Jacob Schulz, Quinta Jurecic and Susan Hennessey joined Ben to talk about where the election is, whether we are in a transition or in a contested election, the challenges a Biden transition team might face and what concerns the team finds particularly alarming as they imagine the next few weeks and months.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:33.9	You know, for anybody who's really concerned about sort of the immediate consequences of
0:38.0	what a transition period might look like, yes, it's documents, yes, it's all these other
0:42.7	questions, but at the end of the day, it's actually continuity of government on these really,
0:47.2	really critical no failure acceptable areas.
0:51.7	Beyond that, I think it's important to note that the work of the new Biden administration
0:57.3	is not the work of an ordinary administration.
1:00.5	They aren't just implementing sort of new policies and course correcting, you know, on
1:05.9	legislative policies or foreign policy or in the way sort of normal administrations do
1:11.5	when there's a shift of power between parties.
1:14.0	They're talking about they have a restoration project to depoliticize the Department of
1:18.9	Justice to restore competence and faith in the intelligence community to restore like
1:25.4	functional day to day policy operations and processes that exist.
1:30.5	That's a really percolon task and it's not going to be any easier if as it looks to be
1:35.8	the case now, they're handed a Republican Senate to work with.
1:40.2	I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast November 5th, 2020.
1:46.2	November 5th is Guy Fox Day.
1:48.3	It is also my birthday.
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