by the retired former federal judge, jay michael luttig, and legal scholar, lawrence tribe. they voiced their support for paper, while also adding their own arguments for why trump is constitutionally disqualified from the presidential race. quote. if donald trump or to be reelected, how could any citizen trust that he would uphold the oath of office he would take upon his inauguration? as recently as last december, the former president posted on truth social, his persistent view that the last presidential election was a, quote, massive fraud, and quote. one that allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the constitution. and quote. no person who sought to overthrow our constitution and thereafter declared that it should be terminated and that he be immediately returned to the presidency can, in good faith, take the oath that article two section one demands of any president elect, quote, before he and tours on the
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would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for american democracy. it will focus on three things. depoliticizing how elections are administered. educating the public on the principles of our democracy. and advancing improvements in election systems in order to root out distrust, sowed by certain political leaders. joining us now the co-chairs of this newly formed task force. former secretary homeland security under president obama jay johnson. he s a partner at the law firm call weiss, and retired judge jay michael luttig, who served on the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit. let me begin with you, i
my questions to you guys, how directly will you work with elected officials on the task force? how directly will you work with elected officials to persuade them as the judge did in the lead up to january six of the critical nature of democracy and its fragility to? that s a good question. we do expect to engage first of all, state secretaries of state who are responsible for running elections in their respective jurisdictions, one of the missions of this task force, in my view, needs to be looking at what incentivizes political actors to engage in extremist rhetoric, extremist behavior, what incentivizes them when you have over something like 400 safe seats in the house of representatives, to basically
today. jay johnson, on that note how does the task force plan to do that? to run to the storm? what actions and policies will you be pushing to try and reach the goal of the three points laid out as we introduce this task force, including educating the public? so, first, thank you for having us on, i m honored to serve as a co-chair with judge luttig who was one of the heroes of january six, in my opinion. serving with him on this task force to strengthen our democracy, to recommend how we strengthen our democracy would be the capstone of my public service career. everything is going to be on the table in my opinion from not only looking at how we educate young people, american
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