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process of formally certifying the results of the 2020 election. now lawmakers on capitol hill are looking at ways to prevent something like this from succeeding in the future, which is why there have been talks about potentially reforming the electoral count act, which is a nearly 140-year-old rule of law that governs what happened on january 6th, that the sflixs tried to stop. politico report that a partnership group of senators, quote, are considering updating the 1887 law to clarify that the vice president s role in overseeing congress certification of election results is ministerial. in order, they cannot overturn the results like the trump people were right to get pence to do. in addition, the group is looking at potentially changing the tleshl for challenging election results. lakes spshlist matthew seligmann
this crisis election in 1876, where in the aftermath of the civil war, there were three states where there were real uncertainties about who the state government was. and these three states sent alternative slates of electors. and it took a political compromise that took just up until two days before inauguration day to solve it. and the toefrl count act was passed to try to prevent that from happening in the future. it s designed to deal with these scenarios that we would have thought were science fiction. but now the law is built to deal with them, but it s vulnerable. matthew, thank you for your work on this. i recommend it if our viewers haven t read what you ve written on it that they da. appreciate your time. president biden has a rare opportunity to make history by nominating first black woman to serve on the supreme court. south carolina district judge jay michelle childs is now the
it is actually that easy. pre-2020, this seemed like far far-fetched plot. while the scheme fell apart last time, there s currently actually nothing in place legally to prevent it from succeeding the next time. only good people. and some good judges stopped it from happening. joining me now is matthew seligmann, a lawyer and legal scholar and fellow at the yale law school center for private law. matthew, good morning to you. thank you for being with us. the scenario you lay out, is it solved by many things or it can it be solved at least in part by the revision or the repair of the electoral count act? thank you for having me. this is a law this is multiple vulnerabilities and multiple flaws. congress has to act to repair those vulnerabilities, but