but nevertheless empowered with this sacred trust. joining me now a man who feels differently, the lawyer who launched something called the electors trust and has been working with suprun and other electors deciding if they can and should vote against the popular vote. lawrence lessig. professor, tell me how i m wrong? why should we be entrusting these 538 who we really know nothing about to change the will of the electorate? well, michael, i didn t hear you argue whether we should or shouldn t, i heard you describe article the 12th amendment to the constitution. i thought you did a very good job of describing it. the 12th amendment creates this office that we are now describing as the electors. the electors have in 1952 they are free agents. they have the freedom to exercise independent,
be validated and i think this procedure has to be validated, too. i say if on monday as people expect they vote to uphold donald trump, he s my president and i do my duty as a citizen and continuing to fight me, too. fight to make america as great as it can be, but i don t think there should be any question after that point. i do think the constitution gives us an electoral college and this is the election. it was created for. and so i think we ought to take seriously the serious considerations that they are engaged in right now and give them the respect that they are owed for this incredibly difficult decision they never expected they would have to make. i appreciate the dialogue, professor lessig. thanks so much for being here. thank you, michael. to those of you at home, what do you think? tweet me @smerconish. i ll read them throughout the course of the program. they re already filing in. smerconish, get over it. trump won. i know trump won, julian. i m having a convers
selecting presidents that somebody with foreign ties would be elected president that would be no way to stop them unless they had an electoral college who should do it. now, these are new facts. these aren t things that anybody knew at the time of the election or at least could prove at the time of the election and it s incumbent on the electors to consider these facts now. now, i m not going to tell them what they should do with them, but it s completely reasonable in my view for them to see their moral obligation to their pledge overridden by this moral obligation to uphold these principles that are part of our constitution. final question, professor lessig, don t you worry that if the electoral college i don t think it happens and i don t think you think it happens and i don t want to present to cnn viewers around the globe that we think there s a chance of this happening on monday, but we re having an abstract conversation, don t you worry of literally a revolution if in fact 6
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