Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
Strongly that 1000000 ballots are going to end up being a disaster. So there is donald once again declaring that this fight for the white house between our 2 geriatric leaders could end up in a legal battle on the floor of the Supreme Court democracy at its finest. So what is the wave of litigation as the trump and his supporters are counting on . Well vox reports that the Trump Campaign has filed a wave of lawsuits seeking to make marginal changes to the procedures governing ballot counting. But nearly all of these suits involve such minor disputes that its unclear what trump stands to gain even if he prevails in court. And as far as the Supreme Court is concerned, so far, the Associated Press reports that the Trump Campaign also seeking to intervene in a pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to 3 days after the election can be counted. Interestingly, most legal experts have said that none of these kinds of cases could put the overturn the
It will give women on death row. Agreeing isnt salyut a shim its all right stop the count dont stop the count the election is a fraud this is a democracy at its finest yes those were the cries that have dominated the political noise and rhetoric coming from all corners of the democrat republican water bearers of this historic election week as the United States of america begins to move forward into whatever new future this election has shaped or wrought depending on your opinion and while former Vice President joe biden appears appears to have wrapped up a very narrow victory thanks to mail in voting in the time of cope with that that hasnt stopped my friends that hasnt stopped our brand name and cheap us President Donald Trump from crying foul we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end perhaps that the highest court in the land will see what we think theyll be a lot of lit
Have said that none of these kinds of cases could potentially overturn the election but for those of us who lived through the great bush versus gore debacle of the year 2000 with the Supreme Court ultimately took the presidency out of the hands of the voters and handed it over to the partisan waters we remain on edge and always watching the hawks. If you will whats going on in a city you really want to. See is this you always still see a. Great city this least says to me just says so which. So brings up the old. Welcome on the watching the hawks i am tire opened and im in the crowd and joining us to discuss the postelection legal and political fist fight for the presidency is the codirector of the National Grassroots Election Protection coalition professor and journalist journalist Harvey Wasserman thank you so much for joining us harvey. They could be hero of your mind thank you oh its nice to hear so professor wasserman you and many others have been sounding the alarm on the potentia
Thanks for tuning in the maybe. The or tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didnt commit i dont even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Agreeing isnt salyut a shim its all right stop the count dont stop the count the election is a fraud this is a democracy at its finest yes those were the cries that have dominated the political noise and rhetoric coming from all corners of the democrat republican water bearers of this historic election week as the United States of america begins to move forward into whatever new future